NHF Tape 1: SP-Dub of 'Modern Times' production made from Ggroerer/Creativideo production master. The program is a retrospective look at social and technological change in Maine and the United States during the period 1890-1930 and contains NHF archival footage. This version may/not contain a tag. This if NHF's best quality copy. NHF Tape 2: 3/4 in. dub of 'Modern Times' [from production master?] with long tag added 4/9/96. The long tag has MHC/Twentieth Century Project contact info plus NHF contact info. NHF Tape 3: 3/4 in. dub of Tape 2, with the long tag modified for broadcast purposes. The tag was modified by omitting the MHC/Twentieth Century Project segment. Use this version for broadcast requests, although it is second generation.
This video explores the growth of the paper industry and hydroelectric utilities; Maine's role in American expansionism; immigration and the decline of agriculture; urban problems and Maine's contributions to progressive reform; the growing national interest in the outdoors; the effects of World War I; and the peculiar self-centeredness of the 1920s, fueled by automobiles, movies and radio. The story of Modern Times in Maine and America is told through original music, narration, rare moving images, many still photographs never publicly seen before, and interviews with Mainers who still sharply remember what life was likein the early years of the century.' ONSITE REFERENCE ONLY.
Full title of image: Pete Le Tendre is the smallest worker. Said 9 years old. Lives 44 Bowler Street, Fall River, Mass. Location - South Carver [vicinity] - Smart's Bog, Massachusetts.
The items in this collection were gathered throughout Mrs. Violette’s lifetime and archivally duplicated by her daughter-in-law, Holly Ramsdell Violette. Materials in this collection include newspaper articles, church programs, photos, letters, cards, telegrams, postcards, brochures, and other items. This collection will be of interest to historians, politicians, educators, St. John Valley and Maine residents, and others.
The C. Stewart Doty Photograph collection is comprised of 220 black and white photographs taken by John Collier Jr. and Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration in 1941-42, and by Jack Walas in 1989. This collection of photographs were collected for use in C. Stewart Doty’s publication Acadian Hard Times, The Farm Security Administration in Maine’s St. John Valley, 1940-1943 (Orono, University of Maine Press, 1991).
Front row: Cyrille and Bertha (LaValley) Babbie; Back row: Nellie LaValley, brother George, a child, and Abraham LaValley, Jr. on family farm on Glass Road in Champlain, N.Y.
Two ledgers documenting the grocery business of Henry N. Moreau of Swanton, Vermont, between the years 1902 and 1916. The bulk of the records fall between 1902 and 1909, as Moreau was closing out the business to join with his brother, Samuel F. Moreau, in an agricultural tool business. The entries in the ledgers relating to the grocery business appear to have been kept by Moreau's clerk, A. McNally, as both books bear his signature. On page 361, in the second volume (XMSC 147:2), beginning in 1921, the ledger documents Moreau's grain business, with daily entries of income and expense, interspersed with yearly inventories. The entries continue until 1943, when Moreau left the business due to health issues.
