Keywords: Raccoon
Item 104732
Man holding a raccoon, ca. 1935
Do you know who this and where it was taken?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1935 Media: Glass Negative
Item 151987
Young child with a raccoon on a leash, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1925 Media: Glass negative
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.
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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement
"Bears and raccoons ate their corn so that was not a successful crop. Meat victuals were woodchuck, bear, deer and raccoons."
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4
"… creatures in turn feed larger animals such as raccoons, striped bass and ospreys. Waste from animals living and dying enters the marsh to be…"
