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Description
Young fisherman, Ernest L. Smith, is holding a large codfish that he caught on Monhegan Island in 1910.
Ernest L. Smith was from Millbury, Massachusetts, and summered with his family on Capitol Island in Boothbay Harbor.
Smith was also a photographer who took many glass plate pictures in the Boothbay Region. Ernest L. Smith and his wife, Clara Carter, owned a summer cottage on Capitol Island where their grandchildren still summered as of 2013.
About This Item
- Title: Fisherman Ernest L. Smith with codfish, Monhegan, 1910
- Creator: Boothbay Region Historical Society
- Creation Date: 1910
- Subject Date: 1910
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Locations:
- Capitol Island, Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County, ME
- Capitol Island, Lincoln County, ME
- Monhegan Island, Lincoln County, ME
- Millbury, Worcester County, MA
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 10 cm x 12.6 cm
- Local Code: #14 glass negative
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Photographers--Maine
- Fishers--Maine--Monhegan Island
- Fishing--Maine--Monhegan Island
- Children--Maine--Monhegan Island
- Codfish
- Fish
- Humorous pictures
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- Boothbay
- Boothbay Harbor
- Capitol
- Capitol Island
- Carter
- Clara Carter
- cod
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- Ernest L. Smith
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- Millbury
- recreation
- rowboat
- Smith
- summer
- summer resident
- tourism
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Boothbay Region Historical SocietyPO Box 272, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538
(207) 633-0820
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