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Historical Items

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Item 68458

Medicinal fish oil factory on Johnson Island, Swan's Island, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Item 73423

Johnson's Island, Swan's Island, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111341

Wampole Spring House, Poland, 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Poland Client: H. K. Wampole and Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"… for business, people could still smell the cod liver oil as you got near Johnson Island. Fish factory workers, Swan's Island, ca."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Later industries included a cod liver oil plant, the smell of which is still remembered by some islanders."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… the ebb and flow of the major fishing times for cod, haddock or mackerel, lobsters were also caught."