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Description
This picture shows how a potato harvester lays out potatoes. ready to be picked. This is a one-row harvester. During the 1940s and 1950s, two-row harvesters became more popular.
The potatoes were hand picked into baskets and dumped into barrels. Full barrels were then transported and emptied into a potato storage house. A few barrels can be seen in the photo.
This photograph was taken on the David Merritt farm on the Pease Road in Mapleton.
About This Item
- Title: Potato harvester, Mapleton, ca. 1940
- Creation Date: circa 1940
- Subject Date: circa 1940
- Location: Pease Road, Mapleton, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 6 cm x 10.4 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Harvesting machinery
- Potato growers--Maine--Mapleton
- Agricultural machinery & implements
- Potatoes--Maine
- Farms--Maine--Mapleton
- Potato industry--Equipment and supplies
- Potatoes--Harvesting
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Presque Isle Historical SocietyPO Box 285, Presque Isle, ME 04769
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