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Item 12749
Title: Sardine Canneries at Brooklin
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society
Date: 1995
Location: Brooklin
Media: 35mm phototransparency of original postcard
Item 12748
Title: Canneries at Brooklin
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society
Date: 1995
Location: Brooklin
Media: 35mm phototransparency of original postcard
Item 12754
Title: Fish Cannery, Brooklin
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Brooklin
Media: 35mm phototransparency of original photograph
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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.
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Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
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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.