Keywords: harvesting machinery
Item 35894
Harvesting potatoes, Presque Isle, ca. 1910
Contributed by: David Gallagher through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Presque Isle Media: Postcard
Item 27852
Harvesting Potatoes, Presque Isle, 1940
Contributed by: An individual through Presque Isle Historical Society Date: 1940 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Exhibit
Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms
According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13
"… illustrates the interest by many in the area in old potato harvesting machinery. Notice that there are no cleats on the wheels of this digger."
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion
"It used no machinery; the paper was pressed in hand screens and stretched on poles to dry. Many Hampden women worked in the mill’s rag room."
Story
Growing up on a potato and dairy farm
by Paula Woodworth
Life growing up and working on a potato and dairy farm was hard work but fun in Aroostook County.
