Keywords: hunting clothes
Item 111602
Abercrombie & Fitch hunting pants, Rockport, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Rockport Media: cotton
Item 111603
Wool hunting shirt, Rockport, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Rockport Media: wool, shell
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.
Exhibit
Northern Threads: Penobscot mocassins
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part I," about telling stories through Indigenous clothing, featuring an essay by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune (Penobscot.)
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War
"By 1880 John Bangs was a clothing manufacturer. Mr. Bangs had a wife, Clara, and three sons, and by 1910 he was a widower, living in Nebraska."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo E. Raynes, Bangor, 1849
"… colored fur cap, Pilot cloth over coat, hunting boots, and rifle. The form of the cap is exact, the outlines of the coat and boots very near."
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
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
