French-Canadian potato farmers near Caribou, Maine
French-Canadian potato farmers waiting in line with truckloads of potatoes to be graded and weighed at a starch factory in Caribou, Maine; part of a larger immigrant demographic represented in agriculture and factories in Northern Maine from the 18th through 21st century, with larger waves arriving in the 1870s.
- Date
- 1940-10
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 4,081 × 4,347 pixels
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