Keywords: Depression era
Item 19029
Depression era bartering recollection, Aroostook County, ca. 1932
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1932 Location: Monticello Media: MP3
Item 104413
Planting Norway pine on Abandoned farm, Troy, ca. 1940
Courtesy of Neil Piper, an individual partner Date: 1940 Location: Troy Media: Photographic print
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Capturing Arts and Artists in the 1930s
Emmie Bailey Whitney of the Lewiston Journal Saturday Magazine and her husband, noted amateur photographer G. Herbert Whitney, captured in words and photographs the richness of Maine's arts scene during the Great Depression.
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.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Of The Arts Era
"During the Great Depression, the Building of the Arts began to lose revenue and slowly fell into disrepair."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Home
"… the Civil War LISTEN to the memories of the Great Depression DISCOVER the life and times of Major General Henry Knox EXPERIENCE the dark history of…"
