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Jonesport (Me.) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Clifford Chandler, interviewed by Susan “Sue” DeRose

 Series
Abstract 1094 Clifford Chandler, interviewed by Susan “Sue” DeRose, November 17 – 22, 1976, Orono, Maine. Chandler discusses his childhood in Jonesport, Maine, including discipline, chores, and games; military service at a naval repair base in San Diego; his grandfather’s work as a rum-chaser enforcing Prohibition, competition among fishermen; seine fishing; working in a factory that canned seafood; similarities and differences in dating over the years; and his views on the Vietnam War as the father...
Dates: 1974-1980

Jonesport (Me.) Cannery Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1134
Scope and Contents

Includes photographs of exterior and interior scenes in the factory, group photographs of factory workers, and photographs of boats, especially the "Fish Hawk." Collection also includes a photograph of Cherryfield, Maine taken in 1899 and a photograph of William J. Underwood as well as one of William Lyman Underwood and of Alice and Marguerite Underwood. Three photographs were taken by Coffin Bros. photographers, Freeport, Maine; no other photographer is identified in the collection.

Dates: circa 1890-1922

Moosabec Trustees Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1282-sc
Abstract

Records selected members, or trustees of the Knights of Pythias Moosabec Lodge No. 123 in Jonesport, Maine.

Dates: 1956-1970