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Category: Economics, Industry, Fishing

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 7909

Emery family weir, Eastport, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Eastport Media: Photoprint

Item 7912

Unloading the Petrel, Portland, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Portland Media: Photoprint

Item 9150

Miller Family Smokehouse, Lubec

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 11158

Plugging crusher claws, Portland, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Portland; Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 11407

Seining the sardine weir, Eastport, 1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Eastport Media: Photographic print

Item 11415

Unloading catches, Eastport, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Eastport Media: Photographic print

Item 11417

Herring drying, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917-01-16 Media: Photographic print

Item 12212

Fishing boat, c. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Media: Photographic print

Item 12747

Mayo Sardine Cannery, Brooklin, 1927

Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency

Item 12748

Canneries at Brooklin

Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency

Item 12749

Sardine Canneries at Brooklin

Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency

Item 12751

Sardine Cannery, Brooklin

Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency

Item 15401

Model of a fishing seine, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print

Item 16462

Net reel at Prebles Cove, Cranberry Isles, 1892

Contributed by: Southwest Harbor Public Library Date: 1892 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Photographic print

Item 20377

Clamming on the Harraseeket River, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Freeport Media: Photographic print

Item 27042

Lobster Net, Islesboro, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Islesboro Media: Cotton twine

Item 27112

Lobster Trap and Buoy, Islesboro, ca. 1980

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1980 Location: Islesboro Media: Wood, cotton twine, bricks, metal

Item 27775

Unloading herring from carrier, Lubec, 1941

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1941 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 31682

Pollock net, Lubec, ca. 1954

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1954 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 31689

Boat facility, Lubec, ca. 1970

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 34049

Sardine carrier Jacob Pike, Thomaston, 1948

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

Item 35289

Fishermen repairing their nets, Biddeford Pool, 1917

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1917 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 35305

Repairing fishing nets at Biddeford Pool, 1917

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1917 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 35574

Seiner boat, Lubec, August 1989

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1989 Location: Lubec Media: Color transparency