Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Fred G. Mlliken took this photograph in about 1935 of the only Passamaquoddy Indian fishing weir in Maine. It was located on the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Indian Reservation near Eastport. The herring was sold to Maine factories.
About This Item
- Title: Fishing, Pleasant Point, ca. 1935
- Creator: Fred G. Milliken
- Creation Date: circa 1935
- Subject Date: circa 1935
- Location: Pleasant Point, Washington County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1670, Env. 2
- Collection: Atlantic Fisherman correspondence, photographs, and news articles
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Fish traps--Maine
- Fishing--Maine
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America--Fishing
- Passamaquoddy Indians--Maine
- Railroad tracks--Maine
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