Keywords: Depression era program
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
Item 104410
Planning for Troy town forest, 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.
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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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Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 2 of 4
"The general world Depression and a country business Depression lasted for nine years, coupled with the major flooding of the rivers in 1936, left the…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"Gradually, over the period known as the Great Depression, families that received some sort of city/state relief grew from 200 in 1929 to a height of…"
