Keywords: fishing gear
Item 101358
Fishing gear and oak lobster traps, Monhegan, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Monhegan Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Monhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 80359
Invoice for fishermen's gear, 1902
Contributed by: Havener family through Friendship Museum Date: 1902 Location: Friendship; Portland Media: Paper invoice
Item 86074
24 Commercial Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Jones Real Estate Company Use: Storage of fish gear
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
A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915
After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3
"… describe the social aspects of fishing trips, gear used and fish harvested. Later on she would discuss in detail efforts to conserve natural…"
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
