History
Photo galleries created from the Portland Public Library archival collection of Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram and Evening Express photos.
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An aerial photograph from 1960 Portland Evening Express shows South Portland's Cash Corner neighborhood before its industrial development.
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Two Press Herald photographs taken 35 years apart show Portlanders enjoying the park while waiting for the city's fireworks.
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An aerial view of downtown Portland shows the city's Lincoln Park before it was cut down to size in a notorious urban renewal project.
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A September 1958 Press Herald photograph shows the entrance to the Maine State Pier near Commercial Street at a time when the pier was still the region’s main cargo-shipping terminal.
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An aerial view of the East Deering shorefront at the beginning of construction for Interstate 295.
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Before the freeway sliced through Bayside, Back Cove extended nearly all the way to Deering Oaks park.
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A 1945 attempt to rename the junction of Center, Fore and York Streets at the edge of Portland's Old Port apparently didn't stick.
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A 1988 photo of fiddler Greg Boardman from the Portland Evening Express.
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A Portland Evening Express photograph from July 1960 shows Cumberland Avenue before urban renewal.
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