Maine Memory Network

Portrait of Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby, 1894

Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1894 Media: Photographic print

Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Media: Lantern slide

Hunting Season

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.

Umbazooksus & Beyond

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.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"… (1854-1946)Maine State Museum Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby (1854-1946) was not only a fly fisherwoman extraordinaire, but also Maine’s first…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Crosby owes much of her success to the photos taken by Edwin R. Starbird, of Strong. Edwin (1853-1921) was born to Amos and Mary Jane Gilkey Starbird…"