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Historical Items Showing 3 of 202 View All
Item 14436
Title: Canoe paddle, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: circa 1890
Location: Houlton
Media: wood
Item 22655
Title: Canoe Club float, Brunswick, 1889
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: 1889
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph
Item 36183
Title: Veazie Canoe Company catalog, Bangor, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Bangor
Media: Ink on paper
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Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Canoes, Schooners and the Down-Easter
Maine has a long history of boat and ship-building, spurred by the timber resources and the many sheltered ports along the coast. Shipping and trade were especially important in Maine in the 19th century.
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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.