Keywords: deer hunter
Item 20527
Deer hunters, Stockholm, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Stockholm Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Stockholm Media: Photographic print
Item 9797
Hunter with moose and two deer, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
Item 49128
19 Deering Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Annie F Hunter Use: Dwelling - Two family
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
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters
"Guiding Services for Sport Hunters Wabanaki guides with canoes, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum Many Wabanaki men at the Bar Harbor encampments…"
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation
"There were many more hunters then, and now hunters are a dying breed. Most men would go through a lot of cold weather to shoot a good size buck."
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph
Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.
