Search Results

Keywords: Travelling entertainers

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 130 Showing 3 of 130
Mystery Corner Item

Item 7919

Cadet training camp musician, Harpswell, 1896

Mystery Corner Item Can you identify the man with the autoharp?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Harpswell Media: Photoprint

Item 78915

Buckskin Sam, Byron, ca. 1900

Contributed by: David Noyes through Byron Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Byron Media: Photographic print

Item 105931

High dive traveling circus act, Waterville, ca. 1925

Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1925 Location: Waterville Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

View All Showing 2 of 2 Showing 2 of 2

Item 110499

Novogrod residence, South Kent, CT, 2002-2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2002–2003 Location: South Kent Client: John Novogrod, Architect: Patrick Chasse

Item 110500

Novogrod Pool, Woodbury, CT, 1992

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1992 Location: Woodbury Client: John Novogrod, Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 46 Showing 3 of 46

Exhibit

Elise Fellows White: World Traveling Violin Prodigy

Elise Fellows White was a violinist from Skowhegan who traveled all over the world to share her music.

Exhibit

"We are growing to be somewhat cosmopolitan..." Waterville, 1911

Between 1870 and 1911, Waterville more than doubled in size, becoming a center of manufacturing, transportation, and the retail trade and offering a variety of entertainments for its residents.

Exhibit

Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 52 Showing 3 of 52

Site Page

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… to play at the US Sesquicentennial (150th), entertained at Strawbridge and Clouthier department store, and played vaudeville stages in New York."

Site Page

Music in Maine - Longfellow Family Music

"… family created and used manuscript song pages to entertain family and guests, including songs popular in the 1750s and early 1800s like Bonnie…"

Site Page

Music in Maine - HEAR

"… his invention, along with the radio, changed home entertainment from people playing instruments to people listening to recordings."

My Maine Stories

View All Showing 2 of 4 Showing 3 of 4

Story

My Peace on Earth
by Dana Eidsness

She left Maine for school and vowed she'd never move back.

Story

Powwow Music length is 64 characters.
by Chris Sockalexis

Playing powwow music with my group, the RezDogs

Story

USCG Boot Camp Experience, Vietnam War era
by Peter S. Morgan, Jr.

"Letters to the Wall" Memorial Day