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Description
The Gorham Packing Company, owned by the Portland Packing Company, produced canned products from the 1870s to 1890s.
The Portland Packing Company called itself the largest canning factory in the world in the 1870s with 19 factories throughout Maine.
About This Item
- Title: Fresh Bay Lobster Gorham Packing Co. label, ca. 1880
- Creation Date: circa 1880
- Subject Date: circa 1880
- Location: Gorham, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 656
- Collection: Portland Packing Company scrapbook
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Canned foods--Labeling--Maine
- Canned lobsters--Maine
- Commercial art--Maine--Portland
- Fishing industries--Maine
- Food industries--Maine
- Labels
- Lobsters
- Portland Packing Company
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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