Keywords: animals of Wood Island
Item 18525
Sailor the dog rings fog bell, Wood Island Light, ca. 1903
Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1903 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 18526
Sailor, family dog, Wood Island Lighthouse, ca. 1903
Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1903 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
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.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island
"… the town of Mount Desert which included the outer islands, there were 132 heads of families for a total of approximately 648 individual persons…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings
"Using tools made of stone, bone, wood, and natural plant and animal fibers, they harvested an incredibly diverse range of mammals, birds and fish…"