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Description

Photographs in an album created by Anne Sheldon Swift (1916-2003) taken during a canoe trip in the Katahdin region. The captions read: "Dr. Horatio Wood OJI & Barron Mts; Mrs. R., Mrs. Scheetz and Bets; Ktaahdn & Colts Point; Barron and Ktaahdn; Ktaahdn & Barron."

Sheldon family members, together and on their own, took regular late summer trips to the Katahdin region from 1900 to 1951, documenting their journeys in photographs, diaries, and correspondence. Harrison Tweed Sheldon (1883-1933), began traveling from New Haven, Connecticut, to Maine’s Katahdin and Moosehead Lake region for camping, canoeing, and fishing trips in his late teens. When he and Alice Cooper Stanton (1879-1967) married in 1915, the two chose the Katahdin area for their honeymoon, and after the birth of their daughter, Anne, the family continued to visit.

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About This Item

• Title: Kidney Pond, Baxter State Park, 1936
• Creator: Anne Sheldon Swift
• Creation Date: 1936
• Subject Date: 1936
• Location: Kidney Pond, Baxter State Park, Piscataquis County, ME
• Media: photographic print; ink on paper
• Dimensions: 10.2 cm x 15.2 cm
• Local Code: Coll. 4282, Box 2, Folder 8
• Collection: Sheldon family papers and photographs
• Object Type: Text and Image

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Cross Reference Searches

Standardized Subject Headings

• Baxter State Park (Me.)--Description and travel
• Camping--Maine
• Canoe camping--Maine
• Fishing--Maine
• Katahdin, Mount (Me.)
• Katahdin, Mount (Me.)--Description and travel
• Kidney Pond Camps (Kidney Pond, Me.)--Description and travel
• Photograph albums

People

• Scheetz, Mr. R
• Scheetz, Mrs.
• Wood, Dr. Horatio

Other Keywords

• Sheldon family

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For more information about this item, contact:

Maine Historical Society
485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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