Keywords: Calf Island
Item 116504
Manuscript Map of Lake Ontario, 1819
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1819 Media: Ink on paper
Item 111004
Mouth of Detroit River, ca. 1820
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: Ink on paper
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.
