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| 11714 | Packer on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor |
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| 11715 | Packer on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor |
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| 11716 | Packer Wading on Break at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor |
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| 11717 | Young Boy at the Addison Packing Company, Southwest Harbor |
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| 12316 | Addison Packing Company at Southwest Harbor |
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| 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. | |||
| 12317 | Addison Packing Company and the Robert Ash House at Southwest Harbor |
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| 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. | |||
| 14649 | 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. | 
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] | |||
| 7705 | Women Packing Sardines at the Machiasport Canning Company, Bass Harbor |
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| 6455 | Interior of the Machiasport Canning Company |
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| 6456 | Inside the Machiasport Canning Company |
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| 6457 | Interior of the Machiasport Canning Company |
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| 15226 | The Underwood Canning Factory |
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| 15361 | Winter View of the Underwood Factory in Bass Harbor from Bernard |
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| 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). | ||
| 3718 | William Underwood Factory at McKinley |
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| A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor. | 
Description: A sardine cannery in McKinely, now Bass Harbor. | |||
| 7704 | William Underwood Company Factory, McKinley, Maine |
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| 5905 | Underwood's Sardine Factory, McKinley, Maine |
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| 6529 | Unloading Herring Next to the Joyce Marie at the Underwood Wharf, McKinley, Maine |
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| 6541 | Workers at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine |
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| Lawrence Carter - facing camera Mitch Gordius - back to camera Unknown person in back | 
Description: Lawrence Carter - facing camera Mitch Gordius - back to camera Unknown person in back | |||
| 6555 | Frying Fish at the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine |
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| 6557 | Crew in front of Boiler Room Door of the New Underwood Factory at McKinley - After 1912 |
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| 6558 | The Underwood Canning Factory at McKinley |
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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." | 
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] | |||
| 6559 | The Underwood Canning Factory at McKinley |
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| 6645 | Crew in the Cartoning Room of the Underwood Factory, McKinley, Maine |
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| 6889 | Underwood and Richardson's Wharves, Mckinley, Maine |
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| 7239 | Underwood Canning Factory, McKinley, Maine |
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