Young women working in the factory at the Ayer, Huston Company of Portland, manufacturer of hats. On the back of this photograph is written, "Hatshop Portland Maine. Ayer-Houston Co., Commercial St. at S. Portland bridge. Pleasantdale & Browns Hill. Women walked to work over old R.R. Bridge to Turners Is. or took train at Evans St. R.R. Crossing. Aunt Nan [Deering?] with hat on needle. Nanna in circle."
Two workers pose at the Pejepscot Paper Company mill on the Androscoggin River in Topsham in photograph taken about 1900.
This is the debarking room. Pulp sticks were tumbled in the background until the bark was scraped off and the cleaned wood was sent to the Pulp Room where it was ground up, and then pumped to the Wet End of the Dryer Room where it started to resemble paper.
Women in the packing room at the Portland Company with wooden boxes for 108 mm howitzer shell casings for the war effort during World War I. The casings were packed two in a box and shipped out in 1917-1918.
Inside of the slate company mill operation with several workers. Monson slate is considered to be a fine quality because of the black color.
It was used as the memorial stone for President John F. Kennedy and his two children. In August of 1994 the headstone was made of Monson slate for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York has a slate roof made from Monson slate.
The Monson-Maine Slate Co. was one of several quarries operating in Monson and this particular mill was located on Chapin Avenue. The building was sold to Moosehead Manufacturing Co. in 1947 and is currently used to manufacture furniture.
The barker removes bark from logs, which then will be turned into wood chips as part of the paper-making process at the Eastern Manufacturing Company in Brewer.
This is the husking shed, part of the Corn Shop, in Lovell Village, ca. 1890.
Owned and operated by James P. Baxter of Portland, this shop was located in the area behind the present-day Lovell Village garage. A hundred people were employed during the few weeks of canning season.
"The story is told that one year about 1917 Mr. Baxter flew into a rage at the sight of his tax bill, and swore that he would never process another can of corn in the Town of Lovell. He leased some land on the road to North Fryeburg and built a new cornshop of considerable size and value. When the lines were drawn, as they were periodically, he discovered that this, too, was in Lovell." Moore, Pauline W. Blueberries and Pusleyweed, the story of Lovell, Maine. Kennebunk, Me. : Star Press Inc., 1970. (82-3)
At the Alfred Shaker Community are, left to right: Bill Eaton, driving oxen; Brother Stephen Gowen, on load; Brother Frank Butler (1833-1917), next to wagon.
Assisting the Brothers with the farm work at the Alfred community was Bill Eaton, a hired hand. As the number of Brethren decreased it became increasingly necessary to employ outside help.
For example, in 1872 the Sabbathday Lake community employed 18 hired men to work on the farm and in the mill. This almost doubled the male work force, as between the Church and Poland Hill Families there were 21 Brothers.
The two-wheeled cart made it easier to tip and unload.
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Smith Farm, New Limerick, ca. 1925
Item 11813info Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum
Potatoes being harvested on the Smith Farm in New Limerick.
After the potato digger extracted the potatoes from the ground, potato pickers gather the crop into baskets, then dump them into barrels.
A picker is paid by the barrel. Pickers place a numbered ticket on each of their barrels for identification. At the end of the day, pickers' tickets are counted and they are paid accordingly.
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Longshoremen's Benevolent Society, Portland, ca. 1894
The Titcomb shipyard on the Kennebunk River in the Kennebunk Landing section of town was the last functioning yard at The Landing.
This late photograph of the yard and some of its workers was made from a daguerreotype thought to date from the 1850s. It is a rare view of a yard at The Landing, which was the earliest and most prolific location for shipbuilding on the Kennebunk River (from 1790 to about 1860).
The shipyard's office building is on the left. Shipbuilding timbers, including a "ship's knee" lie on the ground in the foreground.
The Miller family smoked herring business, owned by Michael Miller, was located in the Brownville section of Lubec, just east of the present-day FDR Bridge to Campobello Island.
At left is James Benner Sr. The woman probably is Josephine Benner, wife of James. Second from the right probably is Michael Miller.
Herring were hand-processed, then hung on wooden sticks called stringers and placed on racks outside to dry as shown here. Then, high in rows inside the smokehouse, a smoldering fire attended day and night smoked the herring, subsequently packed in wooden boxes for shipment.
At one time, as many as thirty smokehouses operated up and down the shoreline of Lubec. Note that the right edge of the photograph shows low tide.
Lumber yard in Lewiston with a partial view of a sign advertising space in a building formerly known as B. Peck, which was a fancy dry goods store on Lisbon Street and then moved to Main Street.
Five slate quarry workers in a wooden hoist box ready to be taken into the quarry to work. This site was owned by the Monson-Maine Slate Co. which operated from 1880-1943 .
Granite quarrying was an important industry in Maine. Granite was quarried and shipped south to Boston and New York for use in large building projects.
This quarry is on Deer Isle off the coast of Maine in Hancock County.
