Maine Memory Network

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry

"Maine was ranked third in the country in corn packing, behind Illinois and New York. The season lasted a mere three weeks."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 15 of 17

"… evening the Town Hall was thrown open, which was packed by a joyful crowd. Speeches, singing and cheers were the order of the evening, and were…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4

"Van Riper’s photographs of the operations in the Skinning/Packing Sheds, the artifacts left there, and memories of workers help in understanding the…"

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

"Sometimes we’d pack 16 or so little fish in a can. They were called ‘snippers’. The bigger ones, we’d pack four or six to a can."

John Martin: Expert Observer - First electric railroad car in Bangor, 1889

"… this as one of the finest, to see a car literally packed as they were all day & evening chiefly by strangers riding for fun and sake of saying they…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865

"… corn and flour elevator with all available space packed with spectators watching to race. The illustration, which includes the five canoes, has…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase

"The battered suitcase was packed with keepsakes relating to someone named John Barry, who had ties to Mexico, Maine."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… weighing about 200 pounds each and store them, packed in sawdust, in ice houses. Then, in warmer weather, the ice would be loaded onto schooners…"

Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies

"… Nowhere in Maine is so much history and life packed into such a small, accessible and inviting environment."

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 4 of 4

"Discover the Story of Blue Hill Clam Packing Factory and Steamboat Wharf, South Blue Hill, ca."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… built along the river, and the harvest was stored packed in hay as well as sawdust, which would have been available in quantity from the numerous…"

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

"… in the larger houses.” Left in the Skinning/Packing Shed were literally thousands of them, dark and oily from the millions of herring that had been…"

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"Then they went to the Packing Room where women and girls placed the herring in cans, generally in a large well-lit area on the second floor."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Buttons

"… are small and large, some washed, some still packed with dirt. Some white, some brown, some colorful- many shapes, many sizes, many colors."

Lubec, Maine - The Blizzard of '34 - Page 1 of 2

"Stuart & Co. and the Columbian Packing Co. had good supplies of coal, and wood on hand. Coal experienced no advance in price."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4

"Burnham & Morrill moved its clam packing business to Portland in 1897, but continued to employ Pine Point diggers because the firm’s reputation had…"

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"“The herring, being pre-cooked, were soft, so when we packed the small fish in cans, eight or more per can, we just snipped the head off between our…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The recommended packing, or insulation, was made up of sawdust, charcoal powder, straw, or hay. Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook

"The recommended packing, or insulation, was made up of sawdust, charcoal powder, straw, or hay. Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were…"

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… 8, when we got up in the morning, my wife started packing her clothes with my daughter. After she was done, she told me, “Honey we're ready." I…"

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"In the left foreground is the Skinning/Packing Shed where the activities involved in the last step went on."

Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4

"… letter, a corduroy road--a road of parallel logs packed with sand and laid over a swampy area--was being constructed near White Oaks."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 3 of 4

"… Dunstan on horseback with all his worldly goods packed in his saddlebags. He had come from Leicester, Massachusetts where he was born 26 October…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 2 of 3

"An excerpt from his diary reads: I packed my goods, loaded them and started for Mann Hill about 10 o'clock A.M."