Description: Fresh out of an early Maine, MA estate collection. Rare iconic original photograph related to Gorton's Seafood. This came out of a collection compiled via a consultant who was doing a historical cataloguing project for Gordon decades ago. You are bidding on the photograph pictured. The photograph measures approximately 10" x 8". The photograph age is in the range of 1940's to 1970's. Please view photos as to condition and type. There may be notations and/or photographers names on back. They vary and may show employees at work, officials touring operations, machinery, advertising, buildings, etc. *Please view my other lots of these rare photographs* of this iconic historic seafood producer. Would look fantastic framed in a collection and/or retail establishment. After these there are no more. Will combine shipping. Much luck! Gorton's Seafood, with operations in Gloucester, Massachusetts traces its roots to a fishery called John Pew and Sons, John Pew, picked up fishing after serving as a Colonial soldier in the Frnch and Indian War. While most people moved West after the war, Pew turned eastward and arrived in Gloucester, Masscahusetts, in 1755. The father-and-son fishery business emerged as an official commercial company, John Pew & Sons, in 1849.When nearby Rockport's chief industry, the Annisquam Cotton Mill, burned down, Slade Gorton, the mill's superintendent, was out of a job. At his wife's urging, he began a fishing business in 1874 known as Slade Gorton & Company, and began to pack and sell salt codfish and mackerel in small kegs. This company was the first to package salt-dried fish in barrels. In 1899, the company patented the "Original Gorton Fish Cake". In 1905, the Slade Gorton Company adopted the fisherman at the helm of a schooner (the "Man at the Wheel") as the company trademark. Today, he is known as the Gorton's Fisherman.In 1906, Slade Gorton & Company, John Pew & Sons, and two other Gloucester fisheries merged into the Gorton-Pew Fisheries. They made Gorton's codfish cakes a household name in New England.The company went into the fish-freezing business in the early 1930s. In 1949, Gorton-Pew made headlines when it drove the first refrigerator trailer truck shipment of frozen fish from Gloucester to San Francisco--a trip that took eight days. In 1953, the company was the first to introduce a frozen ready-to-cook fish stick, which won the Parents Magazine Seal of Approval.In 1957, Gorton-Pew Fisheries name was changed to Gorton's of Gloucester; in 1965, it became The Gorton Corporation, and it is now known as Gorton's. In 1968, Gorton's merged with General Mills, Inc., as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Price: 85 USD
Location: Wells, Maine
End Time: 2025-01-23T22:45:54.000Z
Shipping Cost: N/A USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: Photograph
Subject: Fishing
Autograph Format: Cut
