North Woods Hunting Photo Album, Moosehead Lake Region, Maine
- [ca 1895]
[ca 1895]. Oblong 8vo (19 cm) photo album, flexible blue-green cloth. 21 bromide print photos (4.5" x 6.5"), 3 laid-in photos ( 2.5" x 3"), 1 b&w laid-in postcard (3.5" x 5.5"). A photo album documenting a hunting trip in the North Woods of Maine, beginning with a view of Mount Kineo and the Kineo House with its attendant buildings on Moosehead Lake. Subjects captured include a group of hunters posed on a porch with a uniformed man, perhaps at a Kineo cottage; campsite scenes where hunters wash up, smoke, or play cards; hunters proudly posing with bagged deer throughout the album and and in photos laid-in, deer lying on the ground after the kill and hanging in groups from pole structures; water scenes, including one with canoeing hunters; a photo of a bird perched on a hanging deer, etc. An unrelated laid-in postcard of a farmhouse is entitled "Link View. Orono, Maine". A nice album evoking the Golden Age of sporting in Maine. CONDITION: Good, tonality of photos generally good, most photos with some spotting, one leaf detached.
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Title
North Woods Hunting Photo Album, Moosehead Lake Region, Maine
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
[ca 1895]