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Item 11163

Columbia Phonograph Co., Portland, ca. 1912

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1912 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 11804

Victrola IV, 1912

Contributed by: Abel J. Morneault Memorial Library Date: 1912 Location: Van Buren Media: Metal and wood

Item 14743

Victor Victrola, 1914

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: 1914 Location: Littleton Media: Wood, metal

Online Exhibits

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Jack Lawrence, Saco, on Bicycle, ca. 1900

A Craze for Cycling

Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.

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W. E. Chandler's Band, Kennebunkport, 1910

Strike Up the Band

Before the era of recorded music and radio, nearly every community had a band that played at parades and other civic events. Fire departments had bands, military units had bands, theaters had bands. Band music was everywhere.

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Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

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Music in Maine - HEAR

"Fewkes’ recordings were the first ethnographic phonograph recordings ever made, and pivotal to further fieldwork with the Edison phonograph."

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Nils and Karna Persson, New Sweden, ca. 1890

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Industry

"… Box Company which made cleated plywood boxes for phonograph companies. Trafton and Quimby were the officers of the Winterville Veneer Company which…"