Category: Maritime, Industries, Canning & processing
Item 33330
Stringing herring at McCurdy's Smokehouse, Lubec, ca. 1964
Contributed by: Jacob B. Pike through Lubec Landmarks Date: circa 1964 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 48493
View across Johnson Street, Lubec, September, 1953, 1953
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1953 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin
By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.
Exhibit
Washington County Through Eastern's Eye
Images taken by itinerant photographers for Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, a real photo postcard company, provide a unique look at industry, commerce, recreation, tourism, and the communities of Washington County in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Site Page
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…"
Site Page
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."
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
