Keywords: Poultry industry
Item 151990
V.W. Libby with prized Silver Wyandotte, South Portland, 1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Location: South Portland Media: Glass negative
Item 31430
Maine Egg Producers, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1960 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"Prominent among those in the poultry business were Winfield and Edgar Shaw, Samuel and George Porter, R."
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture
"Questions such as, what is the value of your poultry? How many pounds of wool, hops and wax do you produce? (A List of 1840 Census Questions)…"
Story
How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis
My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.
