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Keywords: Phonographs

Historical Items

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Item 11804

Victrola IV, 1912

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

Item 14744

Victor Victrola model VV 50, ca. 1924

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1924 Location: Littleton Media: Wood, metal

Item 148463

Record player, ca. 1957

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1957 Media: Metal, Bakelite, rubber, wood
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Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Music in Maine - HEAR

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

Exhibit

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."

Exhibit

Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Music in Maine Music is something we share as humans—non-verbal forms of storytelling and expressions of beauty and emotions through sound."

Site Pages

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Site Page

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…"

Site Page

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…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"… collection of the Maine Woodsman and Phillips Phonograph publications. Much of their Fly Rod Crosby collection, as well as items from the Outdoor…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Translating 1890 Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinders
by Dwayne Tomah

Dwayne Tomah (Passamaquoddy) discusses the importance of 1890 recordings