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Description
During late summer and early fall of the early 1920s, loads of corn were brought in by horse drawn hay racks and farm wagons and dumped in great heaps under a large shed at the Baxter Brothers Canning Company in St. Albans. Men and women from St. Albans worked husking the corn and could easily make $2 a day at the height of the season.
It was a matter of amusement, for the locals, that some of the corn was puts in cans with an S.S. Pierce can labeled "superior" and other corn was put in cans with a Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company label, though both were the same product.
About This Item
- Title: Corn Husking Time, St. Albans, ca. 1920
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: St. Albans, Somerset County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 10.23 cm x 15.01 cm
- Object Type: Image
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- Barns--Maine--St. Albans
- Corn husking--Maine--St. Albans
- Horses--Maine--St. Albans
- Carts & wagons--Maine--St. Albans
- People--Maine--St. Albans
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St. Albans Historical Society7 Water St, St. Albans, ME 04971
(207) 938-2947
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