[SEMCO] The History of Wellfleet’s Sealshipt Oyster System

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
February 8, 
2018 
Teresa Izzo
                                                                        508-896-3867 
ext. 137
                                                            tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Digging Into the Past
“The History of Wellfleet’s Sealshipt Oyster System”


BREWSTER, MA ­ The Cape Cod Museum of Natural 
History in Brewster presents “The History of 
Wellfleet’s Sealshipt Oyster System” Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 1pm.

  Since its founding in 1951, the Wellfleet 
Historical Society & Museum has been actively 
collecting and preserving reminders of 
Wellfleet’s rich and varied history. Commercial 
oystering has been a key component of Wellfleet’s 
economy and WHSM researchers working on the 
Wellfleet’s Railroad exhibit noted that the 
railroad was carrying fresh, locally produced and 
shucked Sealshipt oysters across the country in a 
time before mechanical refrigeration. Sealshipt 
combined heavy branding, advanced packaging 
technology and a consumer advertising campaign 
that promised unparalleled purity, in an attempt to create an oyster monopoly.

Dwight Estey, Wellfleet Historical Society 
President, volunteer archivist Dave Drabkin and 
David Wright, author of The Famous Beds of 
Wellfleet, have assembled the story of the 
Sealshipt Oyster System; a vertically integrated 
corporation that saw a golden marketing 
opportunity within the nation’s fears about food 
safety. The story combines aspects of Wellfleet’s 
iconic oyster industry with elements of advanced 
technology, entrepreneurial spirit and Gilded Age 
predatory business practices and arson, to form a very interesting narrative.


  Free with Museum Admission

  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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