Keywords: pails
Item 22992
Dinner pail, Mapleton, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Haystack Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Mapleton Media: Enameled steel
Item 16388
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Littleton Media: Wood
Exhibit
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
Exhibit
Mainers have been held prisoners in conflicts fought on Maine and American soil and in those fought overseas. In addition, enemy prisoners from several wars have been brought to Maine soil for the duration of the war.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Dairy Farms Memories - Page 2 of 2
"To do the inspections, they would put the milk in pails and weigh it. Then they would take their samples."
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 1 of 4
"Pails or wire baskets have replaced wooden hods or wicker baskets; onion bags have replaced wooden bushel baskets; and outboard motor boats have…"
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Story
Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall
We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.
