Keywords: Smoke stacks
Item 31394
Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print
Item 6759
Jewett Corn Factory, Norridgewock, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Norridgewock Media: Postcard
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
Exhibit
Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.
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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4
"… in a storm in 1995 has wood for the fires stacked up against it. In the left foreground is the Skinning/Packing Shed where the activities involved…"
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… with the flakes on moving arms, the flakes were stacked on racks to cool. Then they went to the Packing Room where women and girls placed the…"
