Keywords: Tractor
Item 54417
Mark Thompson on tractor, Fairfield, ca. 1955
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1955 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 100976
Lombard tractor hauling sleds of pulpwood, Magalloway Township, 1939
Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1939 Location: Magalloway Plantation Media: Photographic print
Item 84674
183-189 Washington Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Deering Realty Company Use: Garage
Exhibit
The astronomical arrival of winter -- also known as the winter solstice -- marks the year's shortest day and the season of snow and cold. It usually arrives on December 21.
Exhibit
The Taber farm wagon was an innovative design that was popular on New England farms. It made lifting potato barrels onto a wagon easier and made more efficient use of the horse's work. These images glimpse the life work of its inventor, Silas W. Taber of Houlton, and the place of his invention in the farming community
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13
"The tractor powers the mechanical parts of this digger through a drive on the back of the tractor that is connected to the digger."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Mono Aircraft Company, Presque Isle, 1935
"Linn, president of the Linn Tractor Company, Morris, N.Y. The photo was taken at Presque Isle's airport in 1935. Linn was a native of Washburn."
Story
The future of potato growing
by Dan Blackstone
Informed by six generations of potato farming
Story
Aroostook Potato Harvest: Perspective of a Six Year Old
by Phyllis A. Blackstone
A child's memory of potato harvest in the 1950s
