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Description
Sealing sardine cans at Factory #9 located at “The Acre,” North Lubec. Short for “Devil’s Half Acre,” sardine canning began in this area about 1880.
About This Item
- Title: Can sealing, Lubec, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: North Lubec, Lubec, Washington County, ME
- Media: Photograph on cardboard
- Dimensions: 15.4 cm x 20.9 cm
- Local Code: 48 jpg
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Fishing industry--Maine--Lubec
- Fish--Preservation
- Employees
- Laborers
- Canned food industry--Maine--Lubec
- Canning and preserving
- Canned fish industry--Maine--Lubec
- Interiors
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Lubec Historical Society135 Main Street, Lubec, ME 04652
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