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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 - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"Former farmer Larry Park talks about how a potato harvester works.  SOURCES Richard W. Judd” AROOSTOOK A Century of Logging in Northen Maine”…"

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

"A full basket of potatoes is being emptied into a barrel. The farm owner, Mr. Conant is walking across the field by two potato pickers."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13

"1950Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Potato picker's tickets, ca. 1910Presque Isle Historical Society Up until the 1970s when farms…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"The man to the right of the digger has a basket full of potatoes. He is ready to dump them into a nearby barrel."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"With mechanization of logging and potato farming, the tribe’s economic role disappeared. The people were left to fend for themselves without any…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… pick berries, dig for clams, pick sweet grass for baskets and split ash for containers. This practice continued into the 1930s and ‘40s, until it…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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