Keywords: tractors
Item 14864
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: 2004 Media: Metal, rubber
Item 17949
Minneapolis-Moline Model U tractor, Littleton, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Bernard Stairs through Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Littleton; Minneapolis Media: Steel
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
Site Page
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."
Site Page
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
