Stereograph: Maine: Mount Desert
GUSN-268063
Factories where oil was extracted from menhaden or "pogy" (pronounced porgy by Maine residents) and leftover fish scrap used for fertilizer. Factory was also known as "pogy screw" or "pogy stand".
islands
fish oil
fishing
fish kettles
presses (culinary tools)
stereographs
1 stereograph
PC001
General photographic collection
1920-09-13
PC001.04.01.USME.0600.0010.003
Gift
6.75 x 3.25 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of E.A. Huebener, 1920
Mount Desert Island (Hancock county, Maine) [island]
Rowell, Frank (Publisher)
Heywood, John D. (Photographer)
stereographs
See page 261 of the book: A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860-1920, Part I, by W. H. Bunting.
Item
Stereograph: Maine: Mount Desert
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