Keywords: Snowshoe makers
Item 79927
Mellie Dunham making snowshoes, Norway, 1924
Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: 1924 Location: Norway Media: Photographic print
Item 79929
Mellie Dunham snowshoe workshop, Norway, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Norway Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler
Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.
Exhibit
"He made snowshoes for Robert E. Peary’s Arctic explorations, with Peary noting the snowshoes never failed him."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
Becoming Master snowshoe makers
by Edmond and Brian J. Theriault
Making snowshoes has taken us from novices to world-class craftsmen over 40 years time.
