Keywords: Sailmakers
Item 14546
Fragment of a hand-made canvas sail, ca. 1930
Courtesy of Gambell and Hunter Sailmakers, an individual partner Date: circa 1930 Location: Camden Media: Canvas
Item 14549
Sailmaker's seaming palm, ca. 1901
Courtesy of Gambell and Hunter Sailmakers, an individual partner Date: circa 1901 Location: Camden Media: Leather
Item 86856
Tin Shop and Storage, Portland Pier, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Portland Pier Use: Tin Shop and Storage
Item 37297
131-137 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Portland Pier Use: Office
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Camden has been home to generations of fishermen, shipbuilders, sailmakers, and others who make their living through the sea. The lives of two Camden sailmakers, who were born nearly a century apart, became entwined at a small house on Limerock Street.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s
"… complemented the business by establishing a sailmaking business in the Carr O’Brien Block, a building built by O’Brien in 1852 at the corner of…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900
"… of the war, Dunn & Elliot (D&E), established a sailmaking business, making sails for the major shipbuilding firm of Chapman and Flint on the…"
