Keywords: sportsmen
Item 98855
Group portrait, Norcross House, Norcross, ca. 1948
Contributed by: Norcross Heritage Trust Date: circa 1948 Location: Indian Purchase Township No. 3 Media: Photographic print
Item 101520
Fishing party, Biddeford, ca. 1910
Who were these fishing enthusiasts?
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Glass Negative
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
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.
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Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
