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Contemporary photo by Gordon Chibroski/Staff Photographer; 1915 Press Herald photograph courtesy of the Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

These two Portland Press Herald photographs show Congress Street next to Lincoln Park in downtown Portland, looking east toward Munjoy Hill, in 1915 and on Dec. 18, 2015.

The Portland Room of the Portland Public Library is in the process of organizing and conserving the archival collection of original Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram and Evening Express photographic negatives — a major collection that spans from 1937 to 2005. Find more photos at www.pressherald.com/flashback/.


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