Keywords: Maine potato bag
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Maine Special potato bag, Presque Isle, c. 1950
"The wide variety of bags illustrates the strong interest in distinctive marketing efforts that is still evident today."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Potato Harvest Memories - Page 1 of 5
"Edwena would bring her food in little plastic bags to the potato field that she was working in."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 6 of 13
"Other areas of the country used bags or baskets to do this. A barrel is about 19 inches (48 cm) in diameter across the top and about 30 inches (76…"
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"… potatoes 2 barrels of water 7 barrels of rice 1 bag of cotton 1 box of lemons The prices of most of these didn’t reach beyond 50 cents."
