Keywords: fish trap
Item 11128
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
Item 21140
Bear trap, New Sweden, ca. 1900
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: New Sweden Media: Steel
Exhibit
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.
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.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering
"Two men in dories, Swan's Island, ca. 1930Swan's Island Historical Society More recent pictures of lobster fishing show the transformation of…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Sports
"… income (for lack of time to tend their lobster traps) and played the games. It was a very special time for the team and the Swan’s Island…"
Story
Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
Story
The tradition of lobstering
by Sadie Samuels
I learned to fish from my Dad and will lobster the rest of my life
