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Description
"Pictured is [a] fishing trawler just off the Portland Company waterfront near the Grand Trunk grain conveyors, where Canadian grain was loaded aboard ships for Europe and the southern United States. The Pelican was built in South Portland, Maine, in 1919 for the East Coast Fisheries Company." --Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 55.
About This Item
- Title: The Pelican, Portland Company, ca. 1920
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
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Locations:
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- South Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 39 Folder 12/1
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Trawlers (Vessels)
- Fishing boats--Maine--Portland
- Pelican (Ship)--Photographs
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- East Coast Fisheries Company
- Shipfitting--Maine--South Portland
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