Maine Memory Network

Columbia Phonograph Co., Portland, ca. 1912

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

Victrola IV, 1912

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

Music in Maine - HEAR

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

Music in Maine - MAKE

"MAKE Music makers include musicians, artists, and craftspeople who make instruments, write songs, and make music in the home and community settings."

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…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The History of Stockholm

"… a Box Company that made cleated plywood boxes for phonograph companies. Another company was built to make clothes pins, peavey and pick–pole…"

Translating 1890 Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinders
by Dwayne Tomah

Dwayne Tomah (Passamaquoddy) discusses the importance of 1890 recordings