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Historical Items

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Item 78867

Sardine Carriers, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Photographic print

Item 31989

Sardine carrier, Lubec, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 34049

Sardine carrier Jacob Pike, Thomaston, 1948, ca. 1948

Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1948 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen

"There was a carrier, we called it, and the flakes with the fish on them came down the carrier. We’d pick the flake right up and put it on our table…"

Site Page

Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… Lubec – 583 inhabitants Sailing Sardine Carriers Docking, Lubec, ca. 1900Lubec Memorial Library 1800 – 1850 1804 – 1830 • Twenty vessels…"

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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 4 of 4

"… the housing for the pump, the flexible hose that extended down into the hold of the sardine carrier, and the exterior part of the sluiceway."