Keywords: fishing equipment
Item 31083
Fishing Net with attached cork floats, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Scarborough Media: Netting,cork
Item 61873
Fishing for tuna with a harpoon, Swan's Island, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915
After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.
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.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering
"Boat engines and fishing equipment also changed. Fishing for tuna with a harpoon, Swan's Island, ca."
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!
"… shell middens to the rusted remains of quarrying equipment, Swan's Island holds a living history of the industries that have sustained its…"
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
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.
