Search Results

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 94 Showing 3 of 94

Item 149919

"Otis" and "Bill," hunting and fishing guides in Washington County, ca. 1900

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

Item 149926

Hunting guide "Bill" driving a wagon over rough corduroy road, ca. 1900

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

Item 149927

A guide driving a wagon drawn by two horses over a rough corduroy road, ca. 1900

Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1901 Media: Lantern slide

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 11 Showing 3 of 11

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.

Exhibit

Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, 1943

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.

Exhibit

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.