Item 21361 - Hoover paddle digger, Woodland, ca. 1922

Item 21361 - Hoover paddle digger, Woodland, ca. 1922
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Item 21361
Hoover paddle digger, Woodland, ca. 1922
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The one row Hoover Paddle Digger has paddles on the wheels. The turning of the wheels on the digger powers the digging mechanism. Note also the potato baskets and potato barrels.

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 13.

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