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Item 20542
Title: Trappers' Cabin, Stockholm, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Stockholm Historical Society
Date: circa 1920
Location: Stockholm
Media: Photograph
Item 5282
Title: Sabattus Lola and Sabattus Mitchell, Portland, 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1920
Location: Portland
Media: Black and white photograph, glass negative
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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.
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.