Person/Organization: Dunn, Charles B.
Item 17603
Carrying canoe, Ragged Lake, 1894
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894-08-27 Media: Photographic print
Item 17604
Charles B. Dunn with catch, 1894
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Media: Photographic print
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.
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.
