Item 18780 - Horse drawn potato planter, New Sweden, ca. 1922
- Item 18780 - Horse drawn potato planter, New Sweden, ca. 1922
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- Item 18780
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Image Info On this horse drawn planter the turning of the planter's wheels powers the mechanism that plants the seed potatoes.
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In 1922 Olof O. Nylander assembled a display of photographs, maps and charts of the Maine Swedish Colony which he displayed at the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Gothenburg, Sweden. The series of display cards, or samlats, each featured several photographs of homes, businesses and community members from New Sweden, Woodland, Perham and Caribou.
This photograph is from samlat 6.
