Category: Economics, Employment, Child labor
Item 18067
Indenture of Eliza Ann Burham, Corinth, 1838
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1838 Location: Corinth Media: Ink on paper
Item 33628
Blue Hill Granite Quarry workers, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photograph on paper
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4
"McCurdy Herring Smokehouse Part I: How They Smoked Herring in Lubec Section 1: A Traditional Process in Traditional Buildings McCurdy…"
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Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 3 of 4
"McCurdy Herring Smokehouse Section 2: Six Steps in Producing Smoked Herring: 1990 and 1896 Sluicing the herring into wooden tanks."
