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Description
At the time of the first tourist boom in the Boothbay Region (1870s and 1880s), several Penobscot families came to town each summer from Old Town to sell baskets, snowshoes, and carved wooden items.
Sockabasin family erected a tent on yard space provided to them by Boothbay Harbor resident Harold Bishop at the east end of the harbor's footbridge. The lettering on the tent spells out, "INDIAN BASKETS FOR SALE. MADE TO ORDER."
About This Item
- Title: Sockabasin family basket makers, Boothbay Harbor, ca. 1915,, ca. 1915
- Creator: McDougall and Keefe, Boothbay Harbor
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 8.7 cm x 13.7 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Basket making--Maine--Boothbay Harbor
- Indian basket makers--Maine--Boothbay Harbor
- Indian baskets--Maine--Boothbay Harbor
- Indians of North America--Maine
- Snowshoes
- Sockabasin family
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Boothbay Region Historical SocietyPO Box 272, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538
(207) 633-0820
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