Fishing in Maine Postcard Collection
Scope and Contents
Postcards showing scenes from various fishing villages and ports in Maine, including Boothbay Harbor, Bucksport, Friendship, Kennebunkport, Monhegan Island, Ogunquit, Rockland and Vinalhaven. Shown are fishermen, fish houses and wharves, and lobster shacks as well as activities such as drying fish, lobstering, cleaning fish, trout fishing, clamming, sardine packing, etc. The collection also includes a copy of a photograph showing unidentified boys sitting by a fish house.
Dates
- undated
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access.
Use Restrictions
Information on literary rights available in the repository.
Extent
28 items (9 x 14 cm)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Postcards showing scenes from various fishing villages and ports in Maine, including Boothbay Harbor, Bucksport, Friendship, Kennebunkport, Monhegan Island, Ogunquit, Rockland and Vinalhaven. Shown are fishermen, fish houses and wharves, and lobster shacks as well as activities such as drying fish, lobstering, cleaning fish, trout fishing, clamming, sardine packing, etc. The collection also includes a copy of a photograph showing unidentified boys sitting by a fish house.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased in July 2006.
General
Title supplied by cataloger.
General
No finding aid - see Special Collections librarian for assistance.
- Clamming -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dried fish -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fishers -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fishery processing -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fishing -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fishing ports -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Fishing villages -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lobster fishers -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Postcards Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Salmon fishing -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sardine industry -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Trout fishing -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Wharves -- Maine Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Fishing in Maine Postcard Collection
- Status
- No Additional Box Or Folder List For This Small Collection
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English.
Repository Details
Part of the Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections Repository
5729 Raymond H. Fogler Library
University of Maine
Orono ME 04469-5729 United States
207-581-1686
