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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

Item 59538

Richardson family, ca. 1896

Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1896 Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, 1943

Hunting Season

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.

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

Pulp pile, St. Croix Paper Co., Woodland, ca. 1910

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

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