Keywords: berry picking
Item 105123
Picking blackberries, Westport Island, ca. 1907
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1907 Location: Westport Island Media: Photographic print
Item 20369
Berry pickers, Pettengill farm, Freeport, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Freeport Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Jameson & Wotton Wharf, Friendship
Since 1897, the Jameson & Wotton Wharf in Friendship has been an important addition to the community on Muscongus Bay. The wharf, which is accessible at all tides, was a steamboat stop for many years, as well as important to the lobster business.
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.
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"… children went into the forests to forage nuts and berries. The men would ready their snow equipment, and set out at different times to go deep…"
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… returned to Islesboro from the mainland to pick berries, dig for clams, pick sweet grass for baskets and split ash for containers."
Story
How Far is Deep Enough?
by Molly M.
Wading into Casco Bay after a hot and prickly afternoon on an island off Portland.
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.
