Courtesy of Portland Public Library Special Collections and Archives

This photograph, which ran in the July 5, 1978, edition of the Portland Evening Express, depicts an Independence Day performance inside the Fort Allen Park bandstand.

Derek Davis/Staff Photographer

35 years later, on July 4, 2013, a bigger bandstand is necessary for maestro Robert Moody and the Portland Symphony Orchestra, performing for the “Stars and Stripes Spectacular” on the Eastern Promenade.

The Portland Room of the Portland Public Library is in the process of organizing and conserving the archival collection of original Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram and Evening Express photographic negatives — a major collection that spans from 1937 to 2005. Find more photos at www.pressherald.com/flashback/.