Keywords: sardine industry
Item 12747
Mayo Sardine Cannery, Brooklin, 1927
Contributed by: Sedgwick-Brooklin Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Brooklin Media: Photo transparency
Item 5607
Lubec sardine industry, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine's corn canning industry, as illuminated by the career of George S. Jewett, prospered between 1850 and 1950.
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.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen
"Susie Calder: Lubec's Sardine Queen Susie (Knight) Calder was born on Lead Mine Road, the oldest girl in a family of 12 children."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"… declared this: “The great object of combining the Sardine industry under the control of one syndicate was to regulate and systematize the whole…"
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.
