Photo of the staff of Le Messager Newspaper Item Info
- Title:
- Photo of the staff of Le Messager Newspaper
- Date Created:
- approximately 1990
- Description:
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Staff of Le Messager, outside their first Lincoln Street Office, Lewiston, 1908. Le Messager was the oldest and longest-running French newspaper in New England. It began printing in 1880 and ran through 1966. The paper later moved to a larger location at 223 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, where the outlines of the name "Le Messager" can still be seen on the façade of the building.
Pictured here, from left to right in the front row are: Jean-Baptiste Couture (editor); P.S. Guilbault (foreman); Henri Carpentier; Omer Gauvin; Arthur Brunelle. Pictured in the second row, from left to right are: F. X. Guay; Albert Bedard; Odule Laplante; Joseph Belanger; N. L. Gendreau; Mr. Runneau. Pictured in the back row, from left to right are: Corine Gauthier (Dumais); Loretta Vachon; Blanche Verville (Sutton); and Camille Lessard (Bissonnette). Camille Lessard, the last on the right in the back row, would go on to write the book Canuck, also on display here.
- Subjects:
- photography, newspapers, Le Messager
- Source:
- Le Messager Newspaper Collection
- Source Identifier:
- 2019.13.1BLeMessagerF1
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Preferred Citation:
- "Photo of the staff of Le Messager Newspaper", Le Messager Newspaper Collection, Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine
- Repository Link:
- https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/le-messager/5/
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/