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13087Addison Packing Company
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
16482Addison Packing Company
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Places, Harbor
  • Lenhard - Mary Emma Wamsley (Lenhard) Coates (1900-1983)
9214Crew at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Transportation, Cycle, Bicycle
  • 1914
  • Southwest Harbor
The young man at the right of the photograph is probably holding a c. 1914 Sears & Roebuck Peerless bicycle with pneumatic tires.
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The young man at the right of the photograph is probably holding a c. 1914 Sears & Roebuck Peerless bicycle with pneumatic tires.
5671William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print, Stereograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Allen - Edward Lowe Allen (c. 1830-1914)
  • 1875
  • Southwest Harbor
16084W. M. Underwood's Sardine Factory, McKinley, Me
  • Image, Photograph, Picture Postcard
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
11022The Underwood Canning Factory Crew at McKinley
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
3718William Underwood Factory at McKinley
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
  • 5 Granville Road
A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor.
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A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor.
3592Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
Freeman's Wharf
Farnsworth Fish Factory
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Built by John T.R. Freeman around 1885. The wharf was occupied by several canning businesses at various times
11205Women Packing Sardine Cans in Maine - Probably Bass Harbor or Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
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.
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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.
6558The Underwood Canning Factory at McKinley
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • 1912 after
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
"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."
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"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]
5968Addison Packing Company and Camps at Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Dwellings, Camp House
  • 1918
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
15361Winter View of the Underwood Factory in Bass Harbor from Bernard
  • Image, Photograph, Digital Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Places, Harbor
  • Soules - George John Soules
  • 2014-02-19
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
The cannery was housed in the brick building at left (now Hopkins Landing condominiums).
Description:
The cannery was housed in the brick building at left (now Hopkins Landing condominiums).
15226The Underwood Canning Factory
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Kenway - Edward Northwood Kenway (1924-2017)
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
14649Machiasport Canning Company
McKinley Canning Company
C.H. Rich & Co.
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • 48 Shore Road
"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.
Machiasport Canning Company
McKinley Canning Company
C.H. Rich & Co.
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"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]
13627My Grandmother Lived for the Factory Whistle
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • Walsh - Carol Reed Walsh
The story of Mary Louise Mitchell as told by her granddaught, Carol Reed Walsh
Description:
The story of Mary Louise Mitchell as told by her granddaught, Carol Reed Walsh
13628The Last U.S. Sardine Factory Shutting Its Doors
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Associated Press
  • 2010-04-14
Describes the closing of the Stinson Seafood plant
Description:
Describes the closing of the Stinson Seafood plant
13407William Underwood Company Lobster Cannery at Steamboat Wharf on Clark Point
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 184 Clark Point Road
13359Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf
Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory
A.J. Lawler Canning Factory
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Transportation, Marine Landing, Wharf
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 15 - 17 Lawler Lane
Benjamin M. Robinson Wharf
Allen J. Lawler Canning Factory
A.J. Lawler Canning Factory
13088J.W. Stinson and Son
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
13086Addison Packing Camps
  • Reference
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
12488The Underwood Sardine Factory, Tremont, Maine
  • Image, Art, Painting
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Places, Town
  • Lyford - Philip Lyford (1887-1950)
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor, McKinley
12316Addison Packing Company at Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
The photo shows the factory bus, used to transport factory workers when fish came in.
Description:
The photo shows the factory bus, used to transport factory workers when fish came in.
12317Addison Packing Company and the Robert Ash House at Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
The house in the front of the photograph was the Robert Ash house.
Description:
The house in the front of the photograph was the Robert Ash house.
11714Packer on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • 1923 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane
11715Packer on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Cannery Business
  • People
  • 1923 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • 11 Apple Lane