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Description
Hardwood potato barrels set out for the potato pickers.
After the potato digger extracted the potatoes from the ground, potato pickers worked through a field gathering the potatoes into baskets then dumping them into barrels.
Pickers were paid by the barrel.
About This Item
- Title: Potato barrels at harvest, Caribou, ca. 1930
- Creator: George Whitneck
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: Caribou, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 12 cm x 17 cm
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Agricultural laborers--Maine--Caribou
- Agricultural machinery & implements--Maine--Caribou
- Barrels--Maine--Caribou
- Farming--Maine--Caribou
- Potato growers--Maine--Caribou
- Potatoes--Harvesting
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