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Keywords: Moosehead Lake
Historical Items Showing 3 of 132 View All
Item 15304
Title: Moose swimming in Moosehead Lake, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Media: Lantern slide
Item 80007
Title: Moosehead II Steamboat, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society
Date: circa 1914
Location: Greenville
Media: photograph
Item 79502
Title: Steamboats, Moosehead Lake, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Moosehead Historical Society
Date: circa 1910
Location: Greenville
Media: Photograph
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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.
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.
