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Description
A cache of liquor being taken off a ship in Portland Harbor at Grand Trunk Wharf in 1920 when Prohibition was in effect.
About This Item
- Title: Cache of liquor, Portland, 1920
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 8.3 cm x 10.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.1232
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Grand Trunk Wharf (Portland, Me.)
- Liquor laws--History--Maine
- Police--Maine--Portland
- Prohibition--Maine--Portland--Photographs
- Seizure of vessels and cargo--Maine--Portland
- Temperance--Maine--Portland
- Wharves & piers--Maine--Portland
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