Keywords: ox
Item 79428
Eliab Shepardson with mounted ox, Stetson, 1931, 1931
Contributed by: Stetson Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Stetson Media: Photographic print
Item 58470
Ox team, Upper Main Street, Strong, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Strong Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
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Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society
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Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond
"… on until the ice house was full.” Weston's Ox TeamHubbard Free Library “In the spring when people couldn’t store their food in the cellar any…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
