Keywords: Lawrence Brothers Packing Company
Item 72375
Lawrence Brothers homes, North Lubec, 1975, 1975
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Kodachrome slide
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.
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… declared in the caption of the photo he made in a Lawrence cannery packing room “There are few children so used at this part of the work as yet…"
Site Page
"Lawrence Packing Co., North Lubec, 1936Lubec Memorial Library Entire families, including children, found work processing sardines."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.