Keywords: Cannery
Item 12759
Blueberry Cannery, Interior, Brooklin, 1935
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 12760
Blueberry Cannery, Brooklin, ca. 1933
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1933 Location: Brooklin Media: 35mm phototransparency from printed page
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
Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry
"… Cooperative, established in 1929 was the last cannery to disappear from Farmington’s landscape in 1969."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… to have their youngest members work in the canneries; thus, his comment about the Lawrence cannery photo above."
Story
My Italian grandparents and visiting their homeland
by Sherry Judd
A story about my Italian ancestors in Maine and how I found my family in Italy.
