Keywords: alec
Item 72369
Alec Borland's Motion, Swan's Island, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Item 17856
Union Brass Band, Ferry Village, 1873
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1873 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.