Keywords: Sardine packing
Item 31989
Sardine carrier, Lubec, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 12761
Workers at Steven's Sardine Cannery, Brooklin, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 150107
Butler Manufacturing Buildings in various towns, Bangor, 1949-1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949–1951 Location: Bangor Clients: Charles W. Tenbroeck; Butler Manufacturing Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
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
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.
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Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen
"Sometimes we’d pack 16 or so little fish in a can. They were called ‘snippers’. The bigger ones, we’d pack four or six to a can."
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Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… the idea of canning small herring they called “sardines” to compete with real sardines from Europe."
