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Description
The Portland Company located at 58 Fore St. in Portland, Maine fabricated these street lights along Congress St. in Portland. The Portland Observatory is in the background. The Portland Company crafted engines, locomotives, soda digesters for paper mills, power plants and lighthouse parts from 1846 onwards.
About This Item
- Title: Portland street lights, ca. 1920
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 17 cm x 22 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 40a/8
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Congress St. (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
- Lampposts--Maine--Portland--Photographs
- Portland Co. (Me.)
- Portland Observatory (Me.)--Photograph
- Steel industry--Maine--Portland
- Street lights--Maine--Portland--Congress St.--Photographs
- Streets--Maine--Portland--Congress
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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