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Title: Lucky Strike Green cigarette tin, c. 1930

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum

Date: circa 1930

Location: Littleton

Media: tin

Title: Donald Bryant, Seal Harbor, ca. 1982

Contributed by: Trenton Cemetery & Keeping Society

Date: circa 1982

Location: Seal Harbor

Media: Photograph

Title: Camp, Lobster Lake, 1911

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1911

Media: Photograph

Address: 228-234 Franklin Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: David Wyer & Co.

Use: Smoke House

The Herring Catch

Herring and sardines, small herring, were once an important part of the Maine economy. Smoked or salted herring provided an important food source before refrigeration and sardine canning was equally prominent along the Maine coast.

Le Théâtre

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."

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.