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Item 17877
Title: Factory Workers from Swan's Island, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Swan's Island Educational Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Swan's Island
Media: Photograph
Item 9782
Title: Corn factory workers, Alfred, 1892
Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee
Date: 1892
Location: Alfred
Media: Print from a 6
Item 12761
Title: Workers at Steven's Sardine Cannery, Brooklin
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society
Date: 1995
Location: Brooklin
Media: 35mm phototransparency of original photograph
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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.
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Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.