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NHF Films - November

PO Box 900, 379 Main Street, Bucksport, Maine 04416 phone: 207 469-0924
fax: 207 469-7875
Monthly Selection: November (2001)
Title: "Aroostook County, 1920s"
Date: 1920 Audio: piano
NHF Collections Title: Michael Bernard Collection
Type of Source Film: Documentary
From: 35 mm. nitrate print
Clip Description: Cultivation and harvesting of potatoes in Aroostook County, Maine’s northernmost county, in 1920. Agriculture by hand, machine, and horse-power. Selection ends at the rail car that will bring the potatoes to market. Followed by views of Presque Isle, Maine, with cars and horse-drawn vehicles. Shows people coming out of the Presque Isle Opera House. Silent film from the Michael Bernard Collection, piano accompaniment by Danny Patt.
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Excerpt from "Aroostook County, 1920s"
Presque Isle, 1920
Downtown Presque Isle, 1920, cars and horse-drawn vehicles.
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Still from this month's clip
Riverside Farm, agricultural horsepower for potato growing.
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