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Tall-tale Postcard: Fertile Lands with Potato

Date: 1910
Description: A giant, oddly-shaped potato rests on a flatbed railroad car. A horse-drawn carriage with a driver is visible behind the train. White bags filled with pota...
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Family Farming

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated view of Louis Finn and his five sons and three daughters working on their 150-acre potato farm with a Farmall tractor, a potato digger an...
Photograph

Potato Field

Date: 1920
Description: A view of a potato field showing the rows of potatoes, with men standing near full bushels. Caption reads: "An Aroostook Potato Field. Houlton, ME."
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Digging Potatoes

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Description: Men and a young boy digging potatoes in a field.
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Planting Potatoes

Date: 1919
Description: A man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and overalls is sitting behind a team of two horses while planting potatoes at the International Harvester Company experim...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: View from rear of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elmer Merrill's 400-acre ...
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Elmer Tompkin Driving Farmall M with No. 12 Two-Row Digger

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Elmer Tompkin driving a Farmall M tractor down a hilly field. The tractor is pulling a No. 12 two-row digger on Elme...
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Frank Russell Driving Farmall H Tractor in Potato Field

Date: 1940
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of Frank Russel driving a Farmall H tractor with a middlebuster to harvest potatoes.
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Three Women Posing on Tractor Pulling Potato Digger

Date: 1930
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of three women posing on a tractor pulling a potato digger outdoors in a potato field on the farm of L. Wilson. One woma...
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Men in Field Harvesting Potatoes

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Description: View of a group of men and boys standing in a field. They are harvesting potatoes with horses and horse-drawn implements. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
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Boy Eating an Onion or a Potato in Field

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Description: View of a boy standing and eating an onion or a potato in a field. Next to him are three baskets of onions or potatoes resting on crates. In the far backgr...

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