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Description
Workers at one of the early fish canneries located on Center Harbor in Brooklin, about 1910. Note the predominance of women in this workforce.
Third from the right in the second row is Celestia Seavey Bridges.
About This Item
- Title: Fish Cannery workers, Brooklin, ca. 1910
- Creator: Jane Hooper
- Creation Date: 1995
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Brooklin, Hancock County, ME
- Media: Photo transparency
- Local Code: Brooklin Fish Factories 22/6
- Collection: Private collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Stevens Sardine Cannery (Brooklin, Me.)--Employees--Photographs
- Canned food industry--Maine--Brooklin
- Industrial facilities--Maine--Brooklin
- Women--Employment
- People--Women--Rural Women
- Women--Clothing & dress--Dresses
- Group portraits
- Factories--Maine--Brooklin
- Canneries--Maine--Brooklin
- Sardine fisheries--Maine--Brooklin
Other Keywords
- canneries
- factories
- fashion circa 1900
- fishing
- Industrial Facilities
- industry
- maritime industry
- sardine
- working women
For more information about this item, contact:
Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical SocietyPO Box 171, Sedgwick, ME 04646
(207) 359-8086
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