Keywords: Sardine canneries
Item 12749
Sardine Canneries at Brooklin, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
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
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.
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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."
