Keywords: Mechanical Harvester
Item 10758
Harvesting grain, Skowhegan, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1920 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 21298
Potato harvest, Woodland, ca. 1922
Contributed by: Nylander Museum Date: circa 1922 Location: Woodland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine's frozen rivers and lakes provided an economic opportunity. The state shipped thousands of tons of ice to ports along the East Coast and to the West Indies that workers had cut and packed in sawdust for shipment or later use.
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13
"Harvesting Potatoes MECHANIZED FARMS The photograph on page 10 that shows two young men loading a potato truck was taken on the Myron Gartley Farm…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13
"Harvesting Potatoes TRACTOR POWER Potato harvester, Mapleton, ca. 1940Presque Isle Historical Society Two row potato digger, ca."
Story
Canadian immigrant founds worlds largest paper company in 1898
by Hugh J. Chisholm
Hugh J. Chisholm founded International Paper, which was the world's largest paper company in 1898.
