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The sardine industry
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

Color image with the subtitle, Making sardine cans at Eastport, Me. (sect. V, vol.I, p. 518) From a photograph by T. W. Smillie.

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Canned foods -- Sardines
Fishing industry -- Maine -- Eastport
Fishing industry -- Sardines
Food industry -- Maine -- Eastport
Sardines -- Maine -- Eastport
Smillie, T. W.

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Modern sardine carriers
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

Part of the Booth Fishery Co. of Eastport, Maine these modern sardine carriers (c. 1930) carried 60 hogsheads of fish., cost $15,000 each and had 60 hp crude oil engines. This is part of the Atlantic Fisherman collection: correspondence, photographs and news articles to and from the Atlantic Fisherman, a journal concerned with commercial fishing.

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Booth Fishery Co. (Eastport, Me.)
Fishing boats -- Maine -- Eastport -- Photographs
Fishing industry -- Maine -- Eastport
Sardine fisheries -- Maine -- Eastport

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Fish processing
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

Outdoor fish processing in Eastport, Maine. This image shows children working at a fish processing plant.

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Business enterprises -- Maine -- Eastport
Child laborers
Children's rights -- Maine -- Eastport
Fishing -- Maine -- Eastport
Fishing industry -- Maine -- Eastport
Industry -- Maine -- Eastport

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Lobster traps and women, 1937
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

Fred G. Milliken, the photographer wrote, "Regulation lobster traps used by Frontier Maine fishermen at Eastport. Very few Eastport boatmen take to lobster fishing and less than 100 traps are owned at 4 mile island seaport. These traps are valued at $2.00 each.' This is part of the Atlantic Fisherman collection: correspondence, photographs and news articles to and from the Atlantic Fisherman, a journal concerned with commercial fishing.

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Children -- Maine -- Eastport
Fishing industry -- Maine -- Eastport
Lobster fisheries -- Maine -- Eastport
Lobster traps -- 1930-1940 -- Maine -- Eastport -- Photographs

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Saco Valley Canning Company
Maine Folklife Center, Still Image

Photograph of the Saco Valley Canning Company, Packers of Yankee Cream Corn, in Belfast, Maine.

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Agriculture
Canning and preserving
Corn
Farming/Agriculture
Industry

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Lubec, Maine sardine industry
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

This photograph shows sardine cans at a fish processing facility in Lubec, Maine. This industry was a mainstay for this area of Maine during the 20th century.

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Canning -- Maine -- Lubec
Fishing industry -- Maine -- Lubec
Food industry -- Maine -- Lubec
Sardines -- Maine -- Lubec

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A Love for the Land
MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:25:36

The legacy of Maine's farmers is the open farmland they shaped from the wooded rocky terrain. Their story is an inspiring tale of hardship, innovation, and remarkable endurance. As agriculture heads into the next century, "HOME" looks back at the last century of farming in Maine.

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Agricultural resources -- Maine
Natural resources -- Maine
Maine -- Social life and customs
Maine -- History
Agriculture -- Maine
Farming/Agriculture
Farm life-- History

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Fishing fleet, Eastport, Maine
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

Fred G. Milliken, photographer and writer for the Atlantic Fisherman magazine wrote, "Part of big fishing fleet at Frontier operated in Passamaquoddy Bay and almost daily in Eastport Harbor. But only during the sardine season. Most of these large boats now moored. Majority in photograph are Canadian owned." This is part of the Atlantic Fisherman collection. The magazine was concerned with commercial fishing in New England and was published in Goffstown, New Hampshire from 1919-1954.

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Eastport (Me.) -- Photographs
Fishing boats -- Maine -- Eastport
Fishing industry -- Maine -- Passamaquoddy Bay -- Photographs
Sardine fishing -- Maine

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Photo of sardine weirs in Eastport
Maine State Archives, Still Image

Photo of sardine weirs in Eastport.

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Fisheries
Geography: transportation, waterways, maritime, shipbuilding, fishing
Sardines
Weirs
Fishing/Fisherman

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Former Vanderbilt yacht
Maine Historical Society, Still Image

Yacht Bess, built in 1881 and owned by the Vanderbilt family was purchased by Booth Fisheries Co. in 1917 and carried 90 hogsheads of herring, Now (c. 1930) named 'Whileaway'. This is part of the Atlantic Fisherman collection: correspondence, photographs and news articles to and from the Atlantic Fisherman, a journal concerned with commercial fishing.

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Bess (Ship) -- Photograph
Booth Fisheries Co. (Eastport, Me.)
Fishermen -- Maine -- Eastport -- Photographs
Fishing boats
Fishing industry -- Maine -- Eastport
Sardine fisheries -- Maine -- Eastport
Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt family
Whileaway (Ship) -- Photograph

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