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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"She worked in the factory when I went to work. We were all older and, well, she really had to. It was a necessity. Union Sardine Company, Lubec…"

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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"By 1880 there were five canneries in Eastport, and one in North Lubec. Fish processing, Eastport, ca."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… business prospered as well, with some sardine canneries even operating herring smokehouses. American Can Company, Lubec, ca."

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 1 of 4

"… was densely crowded with smokehouses, sardine canneries, lumber and coal businesses out on the wharves."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… were also able to support industries such as a cannery, several fish factories both fresh and for salting, blacksmiths, coopers, a medicinal fish…"