Keywords: Traveling minstrels
Item 7919
Cadet training camp musician, Harpswell, 1896
Can you identify the man with the autoharp?
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Harpswell Media: Photoprint
Item 7159
Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency
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For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4
"… as did traveling theater companies, minstrel shows and the movie theater, showing silent films accompanied by a local piano player."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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