Keywords: Sound recording
Item 148492
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1930
Media: Wax, cardboard
This record contains 2 images.
Item 148490
From Generation to Generation: Cantor Samuel Zimelman A Family Rejoices, Portland, 1971
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1966
Location: Portland
Media: Record
This record contains 2 images.
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
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Sounds
"The Serenaders Stars Over Stevens ~ Listen to the singers from the Stevens Training Center in a recording from 1966."
Site Page
Maine's Road to Statehood - Maine in the 17th Century
"… between Maine and Massachusetts was without sound footing from its infancy. In 1680, a petition from one hundred and eighteen inhabitants of…"
Story
Translating 1890 Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinders
by Dwayne Tomah
Dwayne Tomah (Passamaquoddy) discusses the importance of 1890 recordings
Story
Choosing a Career in Country and Bluegrass Music
by Ken Brooks
How I became a country and bluegrass musician
