Keywords: canning operation
Item 27771
Columbian Canning Company, Lubec, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 68437
Peacock Canning Company, Lubec, 1975
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Kodachrome slide
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Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
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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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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."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Chester Greenwood
"… & carriage builder and a businessman in the Corn Canning Industry. All of the boys in the family had that same tendency to the creative and the…"