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Description
Spraying potatoes on A. O. Jepson's farm on Route 161. Potato plants in Aroostook County were sprayed for the Colorado potato beetle. Farmers sprayed the plants with a solution of water, lime, blue vitriol (copper sulfate) and arsenic. Note the potato blossoms.
In 1922 Olof O. Nylander assembled a display of photographs, maps and charts of the Maine Swedish Colony which he displayed at the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Gothenburg, Sweden. The series of display cards, or samlats, each featured several photographs of homes, businesses and community members from New Sweden, Woodland, Perham and Caribou.
This photograph is from samlat 6.
About This Item
- Title: Spraying a potato field, New Sweden, ca. 1922
- Creation Date: circa 1922
- Subject Date: circa 1922
- Location: New Sweden, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 3 cm x 5 cm
- Local Code: NYW80.06.16
- Collection: Nylander samlat
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Agricultural machinery & equipment
- Potato growers--Maine--New Sweden
- Swedish Americans--Maine
- Colorado potato beetle
- Potatoes
- Farms--Maine--New Sweden
People
Other Keywords
- Maine Swedish Colony
- Olof O. Nylander
- potato blossoms
- potato plants
- Route 161
- samlat 6
- sprayer
- Spraying potatoes
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