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Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"Fancy porcupine-weave basket, Penobscot, 1862Abbe Museum Living in scattered homesteads and small hamlets, these hardscrabble settlers busied…"

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A Potato Harvesting Scene, Presque Isle, 1945

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 9 of 13

"… house for picker’s families was usually not as fancy as the farmer’s house. It became know in local parlance as a “picker’s shack”."

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Cottage baby with student nurse, Farmington, ca. 1947

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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