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Description
A photograph showing how full barrels of potatoes are loaded onto a truck during potato harvest. The man on right runs the battery powered hoist while the other man is ready to place the barrel onto the truck. This truck can carry 40 barrels.
The box on the right holds tickets that are deposited on the barrels by the potato pickers, who can be seen in the background. Notice the ticket on the rim of the barrel. Workers on back of the truck are from left, Steven Giberson and Myron Nickerson.
Also in the background is a tractor hauling a digger, which removes potatoes from the row and lays them on the ground, ready to be picked.
About This Item
- Title: Loading Potato Barrels, Presque Isle, 1976
- Creator: U. S. Department of Agriculture
- Creation Date: 1976
- Subject Date: 1976
- Location: Gartley Farm, Presque Isle, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 16.9 cm x 24.2 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Potatoes--Maine
- Potato growers--Maine--Presque Isle
- Agricultural laborers
- Gartley, Myron--Homes and haunts--Maine--Presque Isle
- Family farms--Maine
- Potato industry--Equipment and supplies
- Farms--Maine--Presque Isle
- Agricultural machinery & implements
- Harvesting machinery
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Presque Isle Historical SocietyPO Box 285, Presque Isle, ME 04769
(207) 762-1151
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