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| Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Crew at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Crew at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The young man at the right of the photograph is probably holding a c. 1914 Sears & Roebuck Peerless bicycle with pneumatic tires. | |
| William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| W. M. Underwood's Sardine Factory, McKinley, Me Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  W. M. Underwood's Sardine Factory, McKinley, Me Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| William Underwood Factory at McKinley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Underwood Factory at McKinley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor. | ||
| Freeman's Wharf Farnsworth Fish Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times | ||
| Women Packing Sardine Cans in Maine - Probably Bass Harbor or Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Women Packing Sardine Cans in Maine - Probably Bass Harbor or Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Note the scissors hanging on the wall - typical in the old canning factories. The location of this photograph is unknown, but it was in a collection of pictures taken on Mount Desert and could very well have been taken in Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor or Manset. | |||
| The Underwood Canning Factory at McKinley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Underwood Canning Factory at McKinley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "During the winter months [in the 1930's], Dad clammed to bring in additional income; sometimes his three sons joined him. After completing the clamming, we would bring the clams home, and start processing them to seel to the Underwood Canning Co. located in Bass Harbor…"" - “The Local Boy: Growing up in Northeast Harbor, Maine in the 1930’s” by Miles Grindle, p. 9 – n.d. [2006] – Privately published – in the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library." [show more] | |
| Addison Packing Company and Camps at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company and Camps at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Winter View of the Underwood Factory in Bass Harbor from Bernard Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Winter View of the Underwood Factory in Bass Harbor from Bernard Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The cannery was housed in the brick building at left (now Hopkins Landing condominiums). |
| The Underwood Canning Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Underwood Canning Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Machiasport Canning Company McKinley Canning Company C.H. Rich & Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: "The first owners of the McKinley Canning Company were William "Bill" Herbert Thurston (1886-1957), Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986), his brother, Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) and their father, Jones Everett Wass (1881-1956). The company later became the Machiasport Canning Company owned by Henry Bucknam Wass and Charles Henry Rich (1892-1967)." - Interview with Elsie (Reed) Lunt, bookkeeper there for many years - 2008. "The building on the south side of the C.H. Rich & Co. property was the McKinley Canning Co. sardine packing factory, a branch of the Machiasport Canning Co., which was owned by Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987), brother to Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) who was probably involved in the business too. C.H. Rich & Co. bought the building for their lobster dealership and crab picking operation. They later expanded by building on the north side of the property." - Information from Elsie V. (Reed) Lunt, Mrs. Clarence L. Lunt, who was a bookkeeper for C.H. Rich until the business closed in 1963 - Interview 09/22/10 It was a sardine factory and during WWII hake and mackerel were canned there. C.H. Rich bought lobsters and fish. Wass canned sardines, mackerel and hake. [show more] | ||
| My Grandmother Lived for the Factory Whistle Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  My Grandmother Lived for the Factory Whistle Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The story of Mary Louise Mitchell as told by her granddaught, Carol Reed Walsh | ||
| The Last U.S. Sardine Factory Shutting Its Doors Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Last U.S. Sardine Factory Shutting Its Doors Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Describes the closing of the Stinson Seafood plant | |
| William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery at Steamboat Wharf on Clark Point Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery at Steamboat Wharf on Clark Point Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory A.J. Lawler Canning Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory A.J. Lawler Canning Factory Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| J.W. Stinson and Son Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  J.W. Stinson and Son Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Addison Packing Camps Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Addison Packing Camps Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| The Underwood Sardine Factory, Tremont, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Underwood Sardine Factory, Tremont, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Addison Packing Company at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The photo shows the factory bus, used to transport factory workers when fish came in. | ||
| Addison Packing Company and the Robert Ash House at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Addison Packing Company and the Robert Ash House at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The house in the front of the photograph was the Robert Ash house. | ||
| Packer on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Packer on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Packer on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Packer on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor Public Library |