Photograph portion of the Hamilton-Thayer Moosehead Lake Region Collection.
Collection was generated by Nathan Hamilton and Cynthia Thayer consisting of ephemera and photographs related to the Moosehead Lake Region of Maine. The collection highlights tourism in the region and includes items such as an early 1854 Kineo House register, an 1894 fishing log, a 1909 photograph album and a register for Seboomook House dated 1850.
View the ephemera collection's catalog record.
Note 1: We present items from our collections (maps, atlases, rare books, posters, games, etc.) on our website in their original format. Due to the fact that many cartographic items were created within colonial and imperial structures and perspectives, often reinforcing racial hierarchies, it is important to let our many users know that within our digital collections, there are racist, sexist, and ableist images and narratives. We recognize that these images are hurtful, but should not be hidden away. We hope that by making such materials available to the general public we can encourage dialogue and critical thinking around past colonial/racist enterprises while also reckoning with the issues of our present.
Note 2: In the year 2000, the Maine State Legislature passed LD 2418, sponsored by Donald Soctomah (Passamaquoddy Tribal Representative), which eradicated the use of the offensive term "Squaw" on state place names. In 2009 the legislation was updated to include any state place names with the derivation of the term. While the items in this collection from the Moosehead Lake Region predate this legislation, and out of respect for the law, we have chosen not to spell out the derogatory term, but rather to list the former place name as Sq*** Mountain, as it then would have been called (now Moose Mountain).
![[View of A Bridge Across the Lake] by Thomas Sedgwick Steele](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/hamilton-thayer-photographs/1049/thumbnail.jpg "[View of A Bridge Across the Lake] by Thomas Sedgwick Steele")
