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  • Published
    September 15, 2014

    Gorham’s Corner, 1956

    Maine's Animal Refuge League used to be headquartered at 1 Pleasant St., shown in this 1956 Press Herald photograph.

  • Published
    September 8, 2014

    Demolition of Anshe Sfard synagogue, 1983

    In 1983, the owners of the 'Top of the Old Port' parking lot tore down one of Portland's oldest synagogues.

  • Published
    September 1, 2014

    Filling Long Wharf with ‘a bit of old England,’ 1945

    A 1945 news photograph from the Portland Evening Express shows part of Portland Harbor being filled in with ballast from an English freighter.

  • Published
    August 25, 2014

    Porteous, Mitchell and Braun department store

    The building was acquired and renovated during the 1990s to become the Maine College of Art.

  • Published
    August 18, 2014

    Portland’s skyline as seen from Back Cove, 1971

    A pair of photographs from the same location in Payson Park shows the growth of downtown Portland's skyline between 1971 and 2014.

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  • Published
    August 11, 2014

    Portland Friends Meeting, 1996

    A Press Herald photograph from 1996 shows the Portland Friends Meeting house, which celebrated its sesquicentennial with a renovation project.

  • Published
    August 4, 2014

    The Puritan Tea Room, 1940

    A Portland Evening Express photograph from January 1940 shows a striking art-deco storefront at 566 Congress St. – now home to downtown's Otto Pizza.

  • Published
    July 28, 2014

    Route 302, North Windham, in the late 1970s

    This undated photograph from the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram print archives shows North Windham’s Route 302, looking southeast toward Portland. The old photograph and the 2014 view of the same area (below) share few recognizable landmarks in common, but the “Italian Sandwiches” sign seems to mark the present-day location of Feroci’s Pizzeria, and some […]

  • Published
    July 21, 2014

    The Gorham Station Restaurant, 1979

    A Press Herald archive photograph showing Gorham's old railroad station shortly before it was renovated into a restaurant.

  • Published
    July 14, 2014

    W.A.C. recruits at Union Station, 1944

    A group of Maine recruits poses in front of Portland’s Union Station on St. John Street before departing for training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., in June 1944.