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Record

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Publication Date

1902

Publisher location

Castine, Maine

Abstract/ Summary

Records include annual statistics for fish and salt, as well as other cargo, shipped along the Penobscot and Bagaduce Rivers, including the port of Bucksport, Me., written by and for the Corps of Engineers, 1902-1919; reports of transactions performed, including fishing licenses granted, and dollar values of fish, lobster and salt imports, 1910-1912; correspondence of the Collector of Customs in Castine, Me. regarding identification cards required for fishing licenses, 1918; report concerning the handling of imported salt, including its entry and withdrawal for curing fish, from the Portland, Me. office of the Special Agent for the U. S. Treasury Department to the Collector of Customs in Castine, Me., 1909; computation papers and accounts of salt received for the above report, 1906-1909; correspondence between the Collector of Customs in Castine, Me. with the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington, D.C. concerning the importation of salt, lobsters and shellfish; statements of withdrawal of salt and coaster’s manifests for shipments of salt used in curing fish, 1907-1913. [From Series I of the Customhouse Records Collection, Penobscot Marine Museum. Note: Oversized documents necessitated scanning of some pages in two parts.]

Provenance

Gift of [Mrs. Robert Applebee, 1980].

Citation ID number

PMM-Customhouse-04a

Citation/Publisher Attribution

From the holdings of the Penobscot Marine Museum. Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. For more information, contact the Penobscot Marine Museum directly at: Penobscot Marine Museum, 5 Church Street, POB 498, Searsport, Maine 04974, tel: (207) 548-2529, email: libraryresearcher@pmm-maine.org, website: http://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org.

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