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Keywords: Canoes
Historical Items Showing 3 of 202 View All
Item 76328
Title: Canoes on Pleasant Lake, Stetson, ca. 1909
Contributed by: Stetson Historical Society
Date: circa 1909
Location: Stetson
Media: photograph
Item 15343
Title: Canoes, Maine woods, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Media: Lantern slide
Item 80729
Title: Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881
Contributed by: Abbe Museum
Date: 1881
Location: Bar Harbor
Media: stereoview
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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.