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Keywords: Portland waterfront

Historical Items

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Item 10998

Waterfront, Portland, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 82114

South Portland Submarine Line 1922

Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: 1922 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 100725

Plan of Portland, 1858

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1858 Location: Portland Media: Lithograph with hand-coloring

Tax Records

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Item 52971

2-82 Fore Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Company Use: Foundry

Item 52981

2-82 Fore Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Company Use: Foundry

Item 52985

2-82 Fore Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Company Use: Shed

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151347

House for Frank S. Strout, South Portland, 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Location: South Portland Client: Frank S. Strout Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Exhibit

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"… depiction of drinkers in a Clay Cove (Portland waterfront) saloon, clearly depicts Irish-Americans in a cartoon style with the hat and pipe still…"

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A Snapshot of Portland, 1924: The Taxman Cometh

In 1924, with Portland was on the verge of profound changes, the Tax Assessors Office undertook a project to document every building in the city -- with photographs and detailed information that provide a unique view into Portland's architecture, neighborhoods, industries, and businesses.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Along the Waterfront

"… on what was going on on Portland's busy working waterfront entitled "Along the Waterfront", often with accompanying photographs."

Site Page

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"… of factories that would eventually line Lubec’s waterfront. Soon thereafter E.W. Brown and Company built the first factory on Water Street."

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Lubec, Maine - A Signature Quilt

"Perhaps she was visiting friends in Lubec. Mrs. Skillings of Portland X Wormell Sisters of South Lubec, ca. 1885 Almeda J."

My Maine Stories

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Story

An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania

Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021

Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

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Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein

How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery