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Keywords: Barrels

Historical Items

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Item 12957

Softwood potato barrel, Hodgdon, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Hodgdon Media: Ash, cedar, wire

Item 13195

Potato barrels at harvest, Caribou, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 18918

Theodore Barrell letter on shipping interests, 1783

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1783 Location: Boston; York Media: Ink on paper

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Tax Records

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Item 37299

136-138 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Georgia W Ray Use: Storage - Fruit

Item 45781

140-142 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Georgie W Ray Use: Store Building

Item 37307

Assessor's Record, 146-152 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: James H McDonald Use: Shop - Barrel

Online Exhibits

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Taber Wagon

The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community

Exhibit

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Exhibit

Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"The barrel loaders would collect the tickets so that the farmer could keep track of the number of barrels picked by each picker."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 3 of 5

"… Memories Click here to visit Richard Rand's Harvesting Potatoes. Potato Barrel Truck, Presque IslePresque Isle Historical Society"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 11 of 13

"Potato Barrel Truck, Presque IslePresque Isle Historical Society The truck on the right has a flat body. This truck has a hydraulic hoist."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone

A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s

Story

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Story

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR