Person/Organization: Crosby, Cornelia
Item 28841
Portrait of Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby, 1894
Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1894 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
