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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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Seaside House Key Tag, Islesboro, ca. 1900

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… their own property, built family cottages and “camps,” and the Ryder’s cove summer community began, with people travelling from as far away as…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"Derby Road sported a candy and sundry shop, post office and library in one block. Across the street was a women's dress shop, operated by local…"

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Mono Aircraft Company, Presque Isle, 1935

Presque Isle: The Star City - Pastimes

"Pastimes As for pastimes... camping, fishing, music, theater, art, snow sports. These are the activities that bring people together, encompass the…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"SEE New NOTES Mary Camp Swanton and Henry Worcester Swanton, Ambrotypes, ca. 1864, BathPatten Free Library In addition to Zina Hyde, John Swanton…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… Goods sold a variety of equipment, including camping supplies, sports equipment and guns.Bangor Historical Society Shep was very energetic, smart…"

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Portrait of Cornelia "Fly Rod" Crosby, 1894

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"New York Sportsman's Show booth, 1897 "Camp Oquossoc" displayed expert taxidermy and the latest sporting equipment from all over Maine."

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Main Street through "the village," Strong, ca. 1890

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family

"Sporting camps around Maine loved to have Fly Rod come and visit. She was great publicity! The sporting camps would give her free food and free…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"While there, his mind was on finding folks to rent his canoes, sport-hunters he could guide, customers for his traditional wares, and audiences for…"