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Historical Items

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Item 150017

A hunting camp with three hunters on the porch, ca. 1900

Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Film negative

Item 151911

A hunting camp with sportsmen after a successful hunt, ca. 1900

Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Film negative

Item 149972

Three men posing in a woodland with rifles and shotguns, ca. 1900

Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Film negative

Online Exhibits

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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.

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One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC

In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.

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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.

Site Pages

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

"Her playful accounts of summer trips describe the social aspects of fishing trips, gear used and fish harvested."

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

"… them and occasionally accompanied Starbird on his trips into the Maine woods. Loading deer on the train at Strong station, ca."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"The cost to rent a horse for a trip to nearby Phillips and back was $1.50. After the advent of the automobile in the early 1900s, farm children…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

The Year We Had Two Thanksgiving Days
by John Brooks Howard

The story is about a 1939 trip to Grand Lake Stream and Thanksgiving with Geo W MacArthur and family

Story

Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick

A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman

Story

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.