Keywords: Canning
Item 6542
Canning factory, Fryeburg, 1938
Contributed by: Fryeburg Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: Fryeburg Media: Photographic print
Item 26700
Columbian Canning Plant, Lubec, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 51225
62-64 Exeter Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: William G Canning Use: Dwelling - Two family
Item 33138
74-76 Bishop Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Blue Diamond Canning Company Style: Utilitarian Use: Storage
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Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
Exhibit
Women at the turn of the 20th century were increasingly involved in paid work outside the home. For wage-earning women in the Old Port section of Portland, the jobs ranged from canning fish and vegetables to setting type. A study done in 1907 found many women did not earn living wages.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry
Corn Canning Industry By 1913, Maine employed 7,000 people in corn factories, one-third of them women.
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
At least two of them were part of the Seacoast Canning cartel: Columbian Canning and the firm of Mawhinney and Ramsdell. Perhaps Union was also.
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
