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Historical Items

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Item 22503

Warden William R. French and moose, Stoneham, ca. 1938

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: Stoneham; Lovell Media: Photographic print

Item 6004

Game wardens, Raymond, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Raymond Media: Photographic print

Item 8982

Moose in river, Skowhegan, 1920

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1920 Location: Skowhegan; Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Hunting Season

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.

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Student Exhibit: A Friend in Need!

Sometime in the 1920s a 700 hundred pound moose fell through the ice, likely between Norridgewock and Skowhegan. She was rescued by a game warden and another man. Here is the story.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

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.

My Maine Stories

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My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph

Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.

Story

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.

Story

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.