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Addison Packing Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Addison Packing Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Addison Packing Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Places, Harbor
  • Lenhard - Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates (1900-1983)
  • In Copyright
Addison Packing Company
Southwest Harbor Public Library
W. M. Underwood's Sardine Factory, McKinley, Me
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Undetermined
The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
William Underwood Factory at McKinley
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Kenway - Edward Northwood Kenway (1924-2017)
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • In Copyright
The Underwood Canning Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Machiasport Canning Company
McKinley Canning Company
C.H. Rich & Co.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Machiasport Canning Company
McKinley Canning Company
C.H. Rich & Co.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Walsh - Carol Reed Walsh
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery at Steamboat Wharf on Clark Point
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf
Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory
A.J. Lawler Canning Factory
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
J.W. Stinson and Son
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Addison Packing Camps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Addison Packing Camps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Underwood Sardine Factory, Tremont, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Places, Town
  • Lyford - Philip Lyford (1887-1950)
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Underwood Sardine Factory, Tremont, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Addison Packing Company at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The house in the front of the photograph was the Robert Ash house.
Underwood Canning Factory, McKinley, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Underwood Canning Factory, McKinley, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Frying Fish at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Unloading Herring Next to the Joyce Marie at the Underwood Wharf, McKinley, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Workers at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Lawrence Carter - facing camera Mitch Gordius - back to camera Unknown person in back
Packing Room at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Underwood Sardine Factory, McKinley, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Underwood Sardine Factory, McKinley, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library