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Potato harvester, Mapleton, ca. 1940

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 4 of 13

"Tractors were soon pulling two-row diggers so that by the late 1940s there were few one-row diggers in use."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 2 of 13

"Victor potato digger, Littleton, c. 1920Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Two horses were necessary to pull these early potato diggers. The…"

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Picking potatoes, Presque Isle, 1939

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

"… had a gasoline engine mounted on it to power the mechanical parts. This made the digger easier for the horses to pull."

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Public library on fire, Bangor, 1911

Bangor Public Library

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McCurdy Smokehouse, Lubec, ca. 1975

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"It was almost entirely handwork, with hardly any mechanical assist. This was not a process people went to school to learn about or read a book on how…"