Keywords: fly rod
Item 28841
Portrait of Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby, 1894
Contributed by: Maine State Museum Date: 1894 Media: Photographic print
Item 15315
Cornelia Crosby, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Media: Lantern slide
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
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
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3
"… (1854-1946)Maine State Museum Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby (1854-1946) was not only a fly fisherwoman extraordinaire, but also Maine’s first…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3
""Fly Rod" Crosby Jeremy Porter home, Strong, ca. 1880Strong Historical Society Fly Rod's mother was a Porter, and through her she was…"
Story
A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton
A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
