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Description
Pictured is a one-row horse-drawn potato harvester. Children shown in the background are waiting to hand-pick the potatoes into barrels.
About This Item
- Title: Potato harvesting, New Sweden, ca. 1930
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: New Sweden, Aroostook County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 24 cm
- Collection: Historic Album of New Sweden, Maine, 1870-1938
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Laborers--Maine--New Sweden
- Potatoes--Harvesting--Maine--New Sweden
- Harvesting machinery
- Potato growers--Maine--New Sweden
- Child laborers--Maine
- Swedish Americans--Maine
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New Sweden Historical Society116 Station Road, New Sweden, ME 04762
207-896-5200
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