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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…"

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Toft, John D., “Some Historical Data on the Maine Sardine Industry”, Maine Sardine Industry History."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"In 1895 H.W. Joyce built a sardine factory for the herring that were plentiful at the time. Later industries included a cod liver oil plant, the…"

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Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax

"… Plant at Mill Creek later functioned as a sardine factory, operated by the Standard Sardine Company."

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"… daughter of Bion Moses Pike, owner of the Lubec Sardine Co., who had donated the land to the town for the Civil War Soldiers’ monument."

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Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… the Lubec waterfront, still an active herring/sardine economy though in decline from peak years in the 1940s."

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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 2 of 2

"The boat flipped over. Miss Mimi Kelley who was saved by Wyman Ramsdell is the last living of the three children who survived."

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Lubec, Maine - The Gardner Lake Tragedy - Page 1 of 2

"Voice of Miriam Kelley Doherty 2 min 10 sec  “The boat was gunwales down, and as she turned on her heel, rolled in the water, and sank beneath…"

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

"… his time, fish were hauled up in baskets from the boats, and dumped into the tanks. Later came winches, buckets and sluices."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s

"In the 20th century, several draggers and sardine boats were built for New England fisheries, as well as an increasing number of pleasure vessels."

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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