Keywords: One Row Potato Harvester
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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."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 4 of 5
"Potato Harvest Memories Out in the fields there were no outhouses. If the workers had to use the bathroom, they would put barrels around themselves."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13
"Harvesting Potatoes INTO THE BASKET FIRST Potato Picker's Basket, Presque Isle, ca. 1940Presque Isle Historical Society After the potatoes…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5
"1935Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Edwena, my grandmother, told me about working in the Central Aroostook County potato fields."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13
"Harvesting Potatoes DIGGER LAGS SIFT OUT THE DIRT Picking potatoes, Presque Isle, 1939Presque Isle Historical Society Lags on a Digger X…"
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 8 of 13
"Harvesting Potatoes WORKING ON BACK Loading Potato Barrels, Presque Isle, 1976Presque Isle Historical Society During the 1940s, battery…"
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"… throughout Washington County, many living in rows of company houses built by factory owners. Men gathered the herring from weirs, transported them…"
