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LC Subject Heading: Machinery

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 31560

Silk spinner and twister machine, 1839

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1839-05-11 Media: Ink on newsprint

Item 10108

Watson Sprayer, Houlton, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 13196

Horse drawn potato digger, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 13198

Crop sprayer, Caribou, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 13237

Potato hoeing, Caribou, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 13260

Rock removal, Caribou, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 13261

Transporting hay, Caribou, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1940 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 13262

Planting potatoes, Caribou, ca. 1947

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1947 Location: Caribou Media: Photographic print

Item 13680

McCormick-Deering grain seed planter, Littleton, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Littleton Media: Steel, wood

Item 17136

Flour sifter, Littleton, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Littleton Media: Tin

Item 17948

Ford model 8N, Littleton, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Merlin Morse through Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Littleton Media: Steel

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 19283

Schick bailing press, Littleton, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Littleton; Davenport Media: Steel

Item 21141

Hand cranked timber bore, New Sweden, ca. 1880

Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: New Sweden Media: Wood, steel

Item 22598

Spraying Potatoes, Presque Isle, 1942

Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society Date: circa 1942 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print

Item 22841

Building the new dam above Old Falls, Sanford, 1906

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1906 Location: Sanford Media: Print from glass negative

Item 22953

Steamroller in Sanford Square, 1910

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 23525

Vacant Spinning Room in Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 28389

Laying water main, Lubec, 1941

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1941 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 31391

Digester for Lincoln Mill on Maine Central Railroad, Bangor, 1956

Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society Date: 1956 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print

Item 31534

Silk reeling machine, ca. 1830

Courtesy of Jacqueline Field, an individual partner Date: circa 1830 Media: Ink on paper

Item 36591

Saco-Lowell Shops Building 24, Biddeford, ca. 1955

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1955 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 66971

Hollingsworth & Whitney log piling process, Winslow, 1936

Contributed by: Winslow Historical Preservation Committee Date: 1936 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print

Item 76168

Riding the snowcat, Sugarloaf, 1971

Contributed by: Sugarloaf Mountain Ski club through Ski Museum of Maine Date: 1971 Location: Carrabassett Valley Media: Photographic print