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Strike Up the Band

Cape Elizabeth Fire Department Band, 1933

Cape Elizabeth Fire Department Band, 1933

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Town bands and organization bands continued into the Great Depression, sometimes even helping the government effort at recovery.

Here, the Cape Elizabeth Fire Department band plays from a hay wagon in a National Recovery Act Parade in October 1933.