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Keywords: Dunns

Historical Items

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Item 5887

John W. G. Dunn, Moosehead Lake, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Media: Photographic print

Item 1017

Canoeing on Williams Stream, 1887

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1887-08-08 Media: Cabinet photograph

Item 5886

John W. G. Dunn cooking fish, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 62986

69 Merrill Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Ellen Dunn Use: Dwelling - Two family

Item 52631

Assessor's Record, 189 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Albert Dunn Use: Garage

Item 62985

67 Merrill Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: John Dunn Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109182

Mr. & Mrs. J.J. Dunn residence, Castine, 1970-1971

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1970–1971 Location: Castine Client: J. J. Dunn Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 109591

Alterations to house for Mr. G.W. Dunn, Auburn, 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1936 Location: Auburn Client: G. W. Dunn Architect: Coombs and Harriman Architects

Item 111543

Cottage for Major W. M. Dunn on Cushing Island, Portland, ca. 1891

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1896 Location: Portland Client: William McKee Dunn Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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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.

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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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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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"Walsh and Co., following which the firm of T. W. Dunn & Co. was established in 1866 after the retirement of key figures in the former company."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950

"In 1928 when coal was eliminated as a cargo item, the Reine Marie was towed from Portland to Thomaston and tied at Dunn and Elliot’s wharf, where she…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"… Boynton’s, Foster’s, Green’s, O’Brien’s, and Dunn and Elliot’s Wharf) on Wadsworth Street had become the main wharf for mooring vessels in town."