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Keywords: Work horses
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Item 78759
Title: Slate Quarry Workers and Work Horses, Monson, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Monson
Media: photograph
Item 20731
Title: New Sweden farm, ca. 1910
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society
Date: circa 1910
Location: New Sweden
Media: Photograph
Item 19101
Title: Woods camp, Aroostook County, c. 1890
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
Date: circa 1890
Media: Photograph
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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
Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.