Keywords: sardine boats
Item 35026
Sardine boats, Lubec, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
Item 28354
Sardine boats, Lubec, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard
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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
For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
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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."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work
"The sardine factory alone employed 100 people at the height of its success. A story continues even today that for years and years after the medicinal…"