In the early 1900s, industrial America relied heavily on grueling family labor, and nine-year-old Nan de Gallant’s life captures that reality with stark clarity. In 1911, she worked alongside her mother and sisters at the Seacoast Canning Co. in Eastport, cartoning sardines during exhausting shifts that often stretched from early morning until after midnight, depending on the fishing boats’ arrival. Each summer, the family temporarily left Perry to survive the canning season, where every dollar mattered. Rare moments of pride—like a sister earning $7 in a single day—briefly eased the strain, but for most, factory life remained a relentless struggle, reflecting the harsh economic realities faced by countless working-class families of the era.
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