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Keywords: game birds
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Item 18778
Title: Ernest Johns, New Sweden, ca. 1922
Contributed by: Nylander Museum
Date: circa 1922
Location: New Sweden
Media: Photograph
Item 64136
Title: Bird hunting, Strong, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society
Date: circa 1905
Location: Strong
Media: Sepia-toned card-mounted photograph
Item 76331
Title: Maine hunting camp, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Stetson Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Media: Photograph
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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.