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View of Hong Kong, hand-colored lantern slide from collection of a Captain Brown, given to Joanna Colcord of Searsport.

The small boats of Passamaquoddy Bay unload herring at the sardine factory wharves.

This image shows two vessels under construction, the left one almost ready for launching and the right one "in frame." Vessels are typically launched stern first, with the bow high up in the air. Note the many timbers in the foreground, available for building up the frames of the schooner on the right.

"Baulking" or hauling a mast tree through a town square. Town roads and squares were defined in shape and path in part by the turning radius of the large trees.

From the book, New England Masts and the King's Broad Arrow, by Samuel F. Manning, 1979. Illustrations courtesy of the author and illustrator.

Topsey was the Montgomery's' dog, who had her own dog house on deck. Pets were very common at sea. The photograph was taken by the captain's daughter aboard the bark Carrie Winslow.

Fishing a herring weir at low tide, near Eastport, Maine. This image is from G. Brown Goode's seminal work The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1884-1887, Section V, Plate 132. This book can be found online at NOAA.

Herring drying on the flakes in the sun; landing, cleaning, washing, &c., at sardine cannery, Eastport, Maine. Herring too large for canning as sardines were dried and and sometimes smoked. The last smoked sardine plant, McCurdy's Smoke House in Lubec, was forced to close in 1990 as it could not meet today's sanitation regulations.

This image is from G. Brown Goode's The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1884-1887, Section V, Plate 140. This book can be found online at NOAA.

Whole families worked in the sardine canneries that were common in Eastern Maine towns like Eastport and Lubec by the 1880s. Here men and boys are cutting off the heads and tails, and cleaning small herring for canning. Wives and daughters were most likely working inside the building filling cans before they were sealed and cooked.

This image is from G. Brown Goode's The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1884-1887, Section V, Plate 137. This book can be found online at NOAA.

Unloading herring at a sardine cannery, Eastport, Maine. A carryaway boat or Quoddy boat is alongside loaded deeply with herring carried in from a weir (fish trap.) Sardine canning started in 1875 in Eastport; by the time of this image there were at least 13 canneries of which many burned in a major fire in 1885. By 1900, however there were about 20 canneries in Eastport, and about 75 in Maine.

Seine-boat and crew "paying out" the seine. A school of mackerel has been spotted, and the fishing crew are rowing the seine around the school.

This image is from G. Brown Goode's The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1884-1887, Section I, Plate 62. This book can be found online at NOAA.