Keywords: sardine factories
Item 12761
Workers at Steven's Sardine Cannery, Brooklin, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 12747
Mayo Sardine Cannery, Brooklin, 1927
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
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
Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen
"… at the age of 16, she began working at the Union Sardine Factory owned by R.J. Peacock Canning Company."
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"Sardine factory, Lubec, 1910Lubec Historical Society After the herring were cooked for 15 to 30 minutes in a rotary oven with the flakes on moving…"
