Keywords: Infantry Band
Item 102261
105th annual Drill and Ball, Portland, 1908
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1908-05-04 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 17874
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1923 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.
Exhibit
Music in Maine - Military Marching Bands
"1803 The Portland Light Infantry Muster with a drummer and a horn player in uniform on the muster field."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4
"The early mailmen wore tall hats with wide bands, and as they collected letters along the way, they tucked them into those hatbands."
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - 1925 National Governors' Association Convention
"Williams, the horns came from the 5th Maine Infantry band, and whistles were from the steamboat Calvin Austin."
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
