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Moving Image
From Stump to Ship
Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image, 00:28:17

Depicts the year-round activities of the Machias Lumber Company on the Machias River in Washington County, Maine. Includes scenes of winter logging in the forest with hand tools and horses, as well as the spring log drive, with loggers using peaveys to break up log jams on icy rivers as the logs are moved from the forest to the mill. Lumber is also loaded onto schooners in Machias for transport to New York.

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Lumbering
Rivers

Moving Image
Passamaquoddy Ceremonial Dancing
Northeast Historic Film, Moving Image

Summer 1983, likely in Washington County. Passamaquoddy Indian adults and children, some in traditional attire, perform a variety of ceremonial dances outdoors.

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Native Americans
Passamaquoddy Indians

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Still Image
Can-making Room in Sardine Cannery
Fogler Special Collections, Still Image

Photograph showing can-making room of William Underwood Co. Sardine cannery, Jonesport, Maine

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Fishery processing
Fishing/Fisherman
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Sardine industry

Still Image
Chief Neptune and Wife
Maine Folklife Center, Still Image

Photograph of a native American man in Indian dress and a woman in a flowered housedress. The woman is making a basket. The man's outfit is more characteristic of traditional Plains Indian dress than of Passamaquoddy traditions. They are seated indoors at a table. The photo is captioned, "Chief Neptune and wife, Passamaquoddy tribe, Eastport, Maine."

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Baskets
Material culture
Native Americans
Passamaquoddy Indians
Passamaquoddy Tribe

Still Image
Cutting Fish, Sardine Cannery
Fogler Special Collections, Still Image

Photograph of a group of boys gathered around a table filled with fish, cutting fish for sardine cans. William Underwood Co., sardine cannery, Jonesport, ME

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Text
Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message Relating to the Road from Baring to Houlton
Fogler Special Collections, Text

Pages from a pamplet reprinting documents about the building of a road from Baring to Houlton. The selected letters emphasize the difficulties of building roads through Maine in the early 1800s.

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Roads
Settlements
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Still Image
Fish Cutting Table, Sardine Factory
Fogler Special Collections, Still Image

Photograph of a group of boys and men around the fish cutting table at William Underwood Co., sardine cannery in Jonesport.

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Sardine industry

Still Image
Fish Sorting Tables, Sardine Cannery
Fogler Special Collections, Still Image

Photograph of a group of girls, and one boy, around tables filled with fish, William Underwood Co., sardine cannery. They seem to be sorting the fish.

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Still Image
Fishing Fleet, Near Eastport, Maine
Fogler Special Collections, Still Image

Postcard, "Fishing Fleet, Near Eastport, Maine." View of many small sailing vessels on the water.

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Fishing
Fishing boats
Fishing/Fisherman
Sailboats

Sound
Interview with Rob Golding
Maine Folklife Center, Sound

Selection from an interview with Rob Golding, a hunter, trapper, and storyteller of Washington County, conducted by Archie Stewart. In the selection, Golding tells of a hunting and trapping trip he and his cousin took while guiding a sport.

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Hunting
Hunting guides
Hunting, Trapping and the Fur Trade
Trapping

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