Contributed by Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Description
Camp Houlton provided laborers -- German prisoners of war housed there -- to local farms to harvest peas, pick potatoes and do other work.
The prisoners were paid a dollar a day in scrip that they could spend at the post exchange.
About This Item
- Title: Camp Houlton prisoners of war, 1945
- Creation Date: circa 1945
- Subject Date: circa 1945
- Location: Houlton, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 5.3 cm x 7.8 cm
- Collection: Catherine Bell Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Farms and farming--Maine--Houllton
- Detention facilities--Maine--Houlton
- Concentration camps--Maine--Houlton
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners
- Prisoners of war--German--Maine--Houlton--Photographs
- Camp Houlton (Me.)
Other Keywords
- Camp Houlton
- Houlton Army Air Base
- potato barrelsCamp Houlton (Me.)
- potato baskets
- POW
- prisoners of war
For more information about this item, contact:
Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum109 Main Street, Houlton, ME 04730
207-532-4216
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This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. No Permission is required to use the low-resolution watermarked image for educational use, or as allowed by the applicable copyright. For all other uses, permission is required.
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US officer and seven POWs, Houlton, ca. 1944
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