Keywords: Fishing Parties
Item 31057
Fishing Party Poster, Scarborough, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Scarborough Media: Ink on paper
Item 101520
Fishing party, Biddeford, ca. 1910
Who were these fishing enthusiasts?
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Glass Negative
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.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832
"Fish weir, Ball Hill Cove, Hampden, ca. 1832 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description When John Martin…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4
"As a second job, some lobstermen operated fishing party boats summer afternoons, taking groups to catch mackerel, pollack, flounder, cod and haddock…"
