Keywords: sardine cannery workers
Item 12761
Workers at Steven's Sardine Cannery, Brooklin, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 12767
Women employees, Farnsworth Fish Cannery, Brooklin, 1920
Contributed by: An individual through Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1920 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
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
Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"By 1880 there were five canneries in Eastport, and one in North Lubec. Fish processing, Eastport, ca."
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"… business prospered as well, with some sardine canneries even operating herring smokehouses. American Can Company, Lubec, ca."