Photograph of Monhegan Cornet Band
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: The photograph was donated to a church rummage sale by a descendant of lifelong Monhegan resident Linwood Davis, and purchased 2006 from Maine Antiques via Janine Hansen, an antique dealer, from Damariscotta, Me. Hansen donated the photograph to the Archives of American Art in 2006.
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content: Miscellaneous photographs collection
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content: Miscellaneous photographs collection / Series 1: Miscellaneous Photographs Collection
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content: 1 Photographic print (b&w, 13 x 18 cm.; on card 26 x 21)
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content: 1914 August 6
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content: Folder mms042
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
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content: Photographic prints
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content: A photograph of the Monhegan Cornet band in front of the Monhegan (Me.) Schoolhouse, photographer unknown. The photograph was taken in 1914 at the celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of Capt. John Smith, on Monhegan for which several artists contributed paintings to a major art exhibition Photographed in the band are, from left to right, (back row) Ellsworth Wallace, Earl Field, Linwood Davis, Charles Field, Walter Brackett, George Smith, Eddie Brackett, Dexter Richards, Dick Stanley, (front row) George Bellows, Ulysses "UTE" Wallace, the band's founder, Will Stanley, George Green, and Otis Thompson. Judge Charles Jenney, Monhegan historian, is photographed standing in the background.