Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Harrison Tweed Sheldon (1883-1933) created this photo album during a trip to the Moosehead Lake region circa 1915. His images feature the landscape and the traveling party canoeing, fishing, at camp, and transporting canoes using a horse-drawn cart, among other images.
Sheldon began traveling from New Haven, Connecticut, to Maine’s Katahdin and Moosehead Lake region for camping, canoeing, and fishing in his late teens. When he and Alice Cooper Stanton (1879-1967) married in 1915, they chose the Katahdin area for their honeymoon. After the birth of their daughter, Anne (Sheldon) Swift (1916-2003), the family continued to visit.
First, Harrison Sheldon and then Alice and Anne Sheldon documented their trips in photographs, albums, correspondence, and diaries. Anne continued to vacation in the area through at least 1951.
About This Item
- Title: Harrison Tweed Sheldon photograph album, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1910
- Creator: Harrison Tweed Sheldon
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Katahdin, Piscataquis County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 14 cm x 20.3 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 4282, Box 2, Folder 2
- Collection: Sheldon family papers and photographs
- Object Type: Image
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- Camping--Maine
- Camps--Maine--Photographs
- Canoe camping--Maine
- Fishing--Maine
- Katahdin, Mount (Me.)--Photographs
- Photograph albums
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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