Keywords: sardine
Item 31989
Sardine carrier, Lubec, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 28889
Sardine Canning Company, Lubec, ca. 1900, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Photograph on cardboard mat
Item 150107
Butler Manufacturing Buildings in various towns, Bangor, 1949-1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949–1951 Location: Bangor Clients: Charles W. Tenbroeck; Butler Manufacturing Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
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
Washington County Through Eastern's Eye
Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen
"Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen Susie (Knight) Calder was born on Lead Mine Road, the oldest girl in a family of 12 children."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… the idea of canning small herring they called “sardines” to compete with real sardines from Europe."
Story
How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis
My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.