Farm workers shearing sheep in a barn, Cape Neddick, York, Maine, undated

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Collection Type

Photography

GUSN

GUSN-172974

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General photographic collection
Standard-size photographs, 1860s-2000s
Geographic locations
Maine
Maine - York
Maine - York - Fred B. Quimby photographs - Farming
Farm workers shearing sheep in a barn, Cape Neddick, York, Maine, undated
(current record)

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General photographic collection
- Standard-size photographs, 1860s-2000s
  - Geographic locations
    - Maine
      - Maine - York
        Maine - York - Fred B. Quimby photographs - Farming
        Farm workers shearing sheep in a barn, Cape Neddick, York, Maine, undated (current record)
        Ploughing Groundnut Hill, Mt. Agamenticus, York, Maine
        Daniel Moulton, Agamenticus, Maine, 1892
        Jeremiah & Daniel Moulton at Cape Neddick, York, Maine
        Men and boys in a sleigh pulled by a team of oxen, Cape Neddick, York, Maine, Feb. 23,1893
        Carman's pet lamb, York, Maine
        Two children in the driver's area of a wagon, York, Maine undated
        Theodore Robinson, milk man, York, Maine
        Orrin Fitzgerald, wood pile, York, Maine
        Ox team in the woods, Groundnut Hill, Cape Neddick, Maine
        Samuel Payne in cornfield, York, Maine
        Groundnut Hill, Rufus Rarnsdell & Howard, Cape Neddick, Maine
        Ploughing Groundnut Hill, Cape Neddick, Maine., May 1893
        Sketching oxen in Sam Payne's field, York Village, Maine, undated
        Oxen team pulling hay wagon in snow, York, Maine, 1880s
        Churning day, Cape Neddick, York, Maine, November 1892

Description

Three men shear sheep inside a barn. One man stands over the sheep to shave it and the other men have a sheep lying on a table shaving it. Sheep wool is in a pile on a blanket next to a hay stall.

Details

Descriptive Terms

farmers
shears (cutting tools)
wool (hair)
barns
farms
agriculture
laborers
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Inscription

Order date Oct.30, 1939.
(handwritten)

Physical Descrption

1 photograph ; 7 3/4 x 10 inches

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USME.1920.0100.001

Image Dimensions

7 3/4 x 10 (HxW)(inches)

Places

York county (Maine) [county]
Cape Neddick (York county, Maine)

Record Details

Originator

Quimby, Frederick B., 1868-1896 (Photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

Sheep-shearing
Agricultural laborers

Description Level

Item

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