Keywords: Fish packing
Item 23427
Star lobster packing label, ca. 1867
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1867 Location: Portland; Paris Media: Ink on paper
Item 26584
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 86361
Fish Packing, Deaks Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Brawn Willard Company Use: Fish Packing
Item 86270
1 Central Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Central Wharf Proprietors Use: Fish Packing
Exhibit
Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin
By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4
"Van Riper’s photographs of the operations in the Skinning/Packing Sheds, the artifacts left there, and memories of workers help in understanding the…"
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen
"Sometimes we’d pack 16 or so little fish in a can. They were called ‘snippers’. The bigger ones, we’d pack four or six to a can."
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
