Keywords: cod liver oil
Item 68458
Medicinal fish oil factory on Johnson Island, Swan's Island, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Item 73423
Johnson's Island, Swan's Island, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Item 151354
Wampole Spring House, Poland, 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Poland Client: H. K. Wampole and Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work
"… for business, people could still smell the cod liver oil as you got near Johnson Island. Fish factory workers, Swan's Island, ca."
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"Later industries included a cod liver oil plant, the smell of which is still remembered by some islanders."