Title
Staff of Le Messager, 1928
Files
Description
Staff of Le Messager, 1928
Left to right, bottom row: Eliagre Tremblay, Albert Bedard, Philibert Buteau, Edouard Martin, Yvonne Blais. Second row: Dominique Dionne, FX Guay, Louis P. Gagné, Valdor Couture, J.B. Couture, Faust Couture, Adelard Roy, Omer Gauvin. Top row: Liane Michaud Marcotte, Fernand Martin, Irma Poirier Plante, Leonard Michaud, Dr J L N Bonhumer, Loretta Vahon Roy, Eugene Gelinas, Delcia Deblois Dionne, Joseph Girard.
Jean-Baptiste Couture, the paper's owner, is in the center of the photo, together with his sons Faust and Valdor, who had taken over the day-to-day running of the business.
Note that some members of the staff remain from the 1908 photo (2013.0.25), including Omer Gauvin, who is a boy in 1908 (probably an apprentice typesetter), and a grown man in this image.
Accession Number
2013.0.49
Publication Date
1928
City
Lewiston, Maine
Keywords
Le Messager, Lewiston, Maine
Location
BLeMessager F1
Media Type
Original
Recommended Citation
Le Messager Collection, Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries.
Comments
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