[Fort Gorges in harbor, Portland, Me.]
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Thomas B. Reed's birthplace, Portland, Me.
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Lighthouse Portland Head Light and Cushing's Island, Portland, Me.
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Looking up from Riverton Park, Presumpscot River, Portland, Me.
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B.H. Anderson - Portland, Me. to Portland, Ore.
Photo shows B.H. Anderson, former general secretary of the board of trade of Butler, Pennsylvania who walked from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon leading a donkey. Location depicted is the corner of Fore S... More
Portland Head Light / Ralph F. Blood.
Lighthouse, Portland, Maine, with surf crashing on rocky shore in foreground. J1251 U.S. Copyright Office.
Wall details and painting at Edward T. Gignoux U.S. Courthouse, Portla...
Designed by architect James Knox Taylor and built 1908-1911. Addition in 1931-1932 by James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords fr... More
Entrance, Edward T. Gignoux U.S. Courthouse, Portland, Maine
Designed by architect James Knox Taylor and built 1908-1911. Addition in 1931-1932 by James A. Wetmore. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords fr... More
Office, Edward T. Gignoux U.S. Courthouse, Portland, Maine
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Portland harbor and city from Congress Square Hotel
Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10469, 10468, 10467, 10466, 10465, 10464, 10463. RRC and R negatives photographed from slightly different vantage point. "G 8638 L," "G 863... More
John Calvin Stevens House, 52 Bowdoin Street, Portland, Cumberland Cou...
Significance: House was built in 1884 in the "shingle style" by the Portland architect John Calvin Stevens, 1855-1940, as his own residence and has an early example of revived use of the gambrel roof. Survey ... More
Morse-Libby House, 109 Danforth Street, Portland, Cumberland County, M...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS ME-53 Building/structure dates: ca. 1859 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000074
Morse-Libby House, 109 Danforth Street, Portland, Cumberland County, M...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS ME-53 Building/structure dates: ca. 1859 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000074
Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...
Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More
Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...
Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House, 487 Congress Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS ME-2 Building/structure dates: 1785- 1786 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1815 Subsequent Work National ... More
Portland Breakwater Lighthouse, Northeast end of Portland Breakwater, ...
Significance: This Greek Revival structure was first built in 1855 and rebuilt in 1875. It is constructed of cast-iron plate, its bolted joined covered by cast-iron Corinthian columns, cornices, and cresting. T... More
Portland, Me., from South Portland
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[Design drawing for stained glass window for St. Pelus Church in Portl...
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Portland Merchants' Exchange, North side of Middle Street, between Exc...
Survey number: HABS ME-133 Building/structure dates: HABS ME-133
Woodman Building, 140 Middle Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: Complete, well-preserved, and flamboyant facade. Survey number: HABS ME-136 Building/structure dates: 1867 Initial Construction
U. S. Post Office & Old Courthouse, 169 Middle Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Significance: The Old Post Office and Courthouse was a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival style. Careful workmanship and a lavish use of fine marble, generous scale, carefully calculated proportio... More
U. S. Post Office & Old Courthouse, 169 Middle Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Significance: The Old Post Office and Courthouse was a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival style. Careful workmanship and a lavish use of fine marble, generous scale, carefully calculated proportio... More
U. S. Post Office & Old Courthouse, 169 Middle Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Significance: The Old Post Office and Courthouse was a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival style. Careful workmanship and a lavish use of fine marble, generous scale, carefully calculated proportio... More
Fort McKinley, South Fork Latrine, West side of East Side Drive, appro...
Significance: Fort McKinley attains significance as the largest of Portland Harbor's five military complexes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The fort protected Maine's principal city with one ... More
Fort Gorges, Hog Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Portland, Cumberland C...
Significance: It is a very prominent and intriguing part of the Casco Bay view from Portland's Fort Allen Park and Eastern Promenade, and so viewed by thousands every year. Architecturally it is an unchanged ex... More
Fort Gorges, Hog Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Portland, Cumberland C...
Significance: It is a very prominent and intriguing part of the Casco Bay view from Portland's Fort Allen Park and Eastern Promenade, and so viewed by thousands every year. Architecturally it is an unchanged ex... More
U. S. Customs House, 312 Fore Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: The U.S. Customs House is an excellent and well-preserved example of late nineteenth-century architecture designed by and for the federal government. The cornerstone was laid on May 6, 1868 and th... More
U. S. Customs House, 312 Fore Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: The U.S. Customs House is an excellent and well-preserved example of late nineteenth-century architecture designed by and for the federal government. The cornerstone was laid on May 6, 1868 and th... More
U. S. Customs House, 312 Fore Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: The U.S. Customs House is an excellent and well-preserved example of late nineteenth-century architecture designed by and for the federal government. The cornerstone was laid on May 6, 1868 and th... More
Charles Q. Clapp House, 97 Spring Street, Portland, Cumberland County,...
Significance: Exceptional and unusual expression of the Greek Revival style, possibly designed by amateur architect, Charles Q. Clapp. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-64 Survey ... More
Charles Q. Clapp House, 97 Spring Street, Portland, Cumberland County,...
Significance: Exceptional and unusual expression of the Greek Revival style, possibly designed by amateur architect, Charles Q. Clapp. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-64 Survey ... More
McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: A handsome Federal style house, with noteworthy detailing and interior woodwork. Significant as documentation of the lifestyle of the merchant elite of early 19th century New England. Unprocesse... More
McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: A handsome Federal style house, with noteworthy detailing and interior woodwork. Significant as documentation of the lifestyle of the merchant elite of early 19th century New England. Unprocesse... More
McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: A handsome Federal style house, with noteworthy detailing and interior woodwork. Significant as documentation of the lifestyle of the merchant elite of early 19th century New England. Unprocesse... More
McLellan-Sweat House, 111 High Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: A handsome Federal style house, with noteworthy detailing and interior woodwork. Significant as documentation of the lifestyle of the merchant elite of early 19th century New England. Unprocesse... More
[Design drawing for stained glass window for a Catholic Church in Lewi...
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[Nathan Clifford Brown, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / La...
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St. Luke's Cathedral, Portland, Me.
Title from jacket. "108" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 039316. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Casino, Riverton Park, Portland, Me.
Picryl description: Public domain image of park architecture, palace, chateau, open space, 18th, and 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Longfellow's statue, Portland, Me.
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Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a boat in a harbor, water, fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Maine General Hospital, Portland, Me.
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View in Deering Park, Portland, Me.
Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033546. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Spring Point Ledge Light, Portland, Me
Negative cracked twice, right side and taped to second sheet of glass. Date based on Detroit, Catalogue P (1906). "2924" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018927. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Congress Street, looking north, Portland, Me.
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[Fort Allen Park, Fort Gorges in the distance, Portland, Maine]
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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Some of the five British cargo-carr...
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Ship launching in Portland, Maine. Stern of a newly completed ship at ...
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M. Silver and Sons - safety film negatives, Library of Congress
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Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship hull, port, harbor, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a ship, navy, harbor, maritime photograph, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The main public library, a remodeled 1978 building in downtown Portlan...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-11). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More
New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portla...
Significance: The New Portland (Wire) Bridge is the only early American suspension bridge that remains basically unaltered, aside from John A. Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct. It is also the only extant example of... More
Morse-Libby House, 109 Danforth Street, Portland, Cumberland County, M...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS ME-53 Building/structure dates: ca. 1859 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000074
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House, 487 Congress Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS ME-2 Building/structure dates: 1785- 1786 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1815 Subsequent Work National ... More
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House, 487 Congress Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS ME-2 Building/structure dates: 1785- 1786 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1815 Subsequent Work National ... More
First Parish Church (Unitarian), 425 Congress Street, Portland, Cumber...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS ME-6 Building/structure dates: 1825- 1826 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1852 Subsequent Work
First Parish Church (Unitarian), 425 Congress Street, Portland, Cumber...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS ME-6 Building/structure dates: 1825- 1826 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1852 Subsequent Work
Portland Breakwater Lighthouse, Northeast end of Portland Breakwater, ...
Significance: This Greek Revival structure was first built in 1855 and rebuilt in 1875. It is constructed of cast-iron plate, its bolted joined covered by cast-iron Corinthian columns, cornices, and cresting. T... More
Woodman Building, 140 Middle Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: Complete, well-preserved, and flamboyant facade. Survey number: HABS ME-136 Building/structure dates: 1867 Initial Construction
U. S. Post Office & Old Courthouse, 169 Middle Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Significance: The Old Post Office and Courthouse was a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival style. Careful workmanship and a lavish use of fine marble, generous scale, carefully calculated proportio... More
Churchill House, 51 State Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Suggested address, 51 State Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS ME-35 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction
Fort Gorges, Hog Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Portland, Cumberland C...
Significance: It is a very prominent and intriguing part of the Casco Bay view from Portland's Fort Allen Park and Eastern Promenade, and so viewed by thousands every year. Architecturally it is an unchanged ex... More
U. S. Customs House, 312 Fore Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: The U.S. Customs House is an excellent and well-preserved example of late nineteenth-century architecture designed by and for the federal government. The cornerstone was laid on May 6, 1868 and th... More
U. S. Customs House, 312 Fore Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: The U.S. Customs House is an excellent and well-preserved example of late nineteenth-century architecture designed by and for the federal government. The cornerstone was laid on May 6, 1868 and th... More
Portland, Maine, Fire Department, #1, July 3, 1920
Panorama showing firemen in parade. J242397 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1. PAN SUBJECT - Groups
Charles Q. Clapp House, 97 Spring Street, Portland, Cumberland County,...
Significance: Exceptional and unusual expression of the Greek Revival style, possibly designed by amateur architect, Charles Q. Clapp. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-64 Survey ... More
Fort McKinley, Meteorological Station, East side of Weymouth Way, appr...
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[Portland and the harbor from House Island, Portland]
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Portland Head Light, Portland Head, approximately 1/2 mile East of Sho...
Site contains fog signal house, fog bells & fog whistle house. Significance: One of only four lighthouses authorized by President Washington, Portland Head Light was the first lighted by the federal government.... More
Peak's Island, Portland harbor, Maine.
Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Indexed for points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 247 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 710; 651
Western Promenade, Portland, Me.
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[Rustic theater, Riverton Park, Portland, Me.]
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[Portland, Me., drying fishermen's nets]
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Observatory, Munjoy Hill, Portland, Me.
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Middle Street, Portland, Me., Portland, Maine
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Longfellow House, Portland, Me.
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Exterior. U.S. Custom House, Portland, Maine
Located near Portland's waterfront and built to accommodate the city's growing customs business. By 1866, Portland was one of the most significant seaports in the country. Designed under the direction of Alfre... More
Interior. U.S. Custom House, Portland, Maine
Located near Portland's waterfront and built to accommodate the city's growing customs business. By 1866, Portland was one of the most significant seaports in the country. Designed under the direction of Alfre... More
Portland harbor and city from Congress Square Hotel
Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-10469, 10468, 10467, 10466, 10465, 10464, 10463. RRC and R negatives photographed from slightly different vantage point. "G 8638 L," "G 863... More
John Calvin Stevens House, 52 Bowdoin Street, Portland, Cumberland Cou...
Significance: House was built in 1884 in the "shingle style" by the Portland architect John Calvin Stevens, 1855-1940, as his own residence and has an early example of revived use of the gambrel roof. Survey ... More
Morse-Libby House, 109 Danforth Street, Portland, Cumberland County, M...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS ME-53 Building/structure dates: ca. 1859 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000074
Morse-Libby House, 109 Danforth Street, Portland, Cumberland County, M...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS ME-53 Building/structure dates: ca. 1859 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000074
Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...
Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House, 487 Congress Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS ME-2 Building/structure dates: 1785- 1786 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1815 Subsequent Work National ... More
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House, 487 Congress Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS ME-2 Building/structure dates: 1785- 1786 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1815 Subsequent Work National ... More
First Parish Church (Unitarian), 425 Congress Street, Portland, Cumber...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS ME-6 Building/structure dates: 1825- 1826 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1852 Subsequent Work
First Parish Church (Unitarian), 425 Congress Street, Portland, Cumber...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS ME-6 Building/structure dates: 1825- 1826 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1852 Subsequent Work
Portland Breakwater Lighthouse, Northeast end of Portland Breakwater, ...
Significance: This Greek Revival structure was first built in 1855 and rebuilt in 1875. It is constructed of cast-iron plate, its bolted joined covered by cast-iron Corinthian columns, cornices, and cresting. T... More
Woodman Building, 140 Middle Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Significance: Complete, well-preserved, and flamboyant facade. Survey number: HABS ME-136 Building/structure dates: 1867 Initial Construction
U. S. Post Office & Old Courthouse, 169 Middle Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Significance: The Old Post Office and Courthouse was a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival style. Careful workmanship and a lavish use of fine marble, generous scale, carefully calculated proportio... More
U. S. Post Office & Old Courthouse, 169 Middle Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Significance: The Old Post Office and Courthouse was a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival style. Careful workmanship and a lavish use of fine marble, generous scale, carefully calculated proportio... More
U. S. Post Office & Old Courthouse, 169 Middle Street, Portland, Cumbe...
Significance: The Old Post Office and Courthouse was a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival style. Careful workmanship and a lavish use of fine marble, generous scale, carefully calculated proportio... More
Fort McKinley, South Fork Latrine, West side of East Side Drive, appro...
Significance: Fort McKinley attains significance as the largest of Portland Harbor's five military complexes built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The fort protected Maine's principal city with one ... More
Portland harbor and city from Congress Square Hotel
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Churchill House, 51 State Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Suggested address, 51 State Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS ME-35 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction
Churchill House, 51 State Street, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
Suggested address, 51 State Street, is not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS ME-35 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction
John Mussey House, 91 Danforth Street Northwest, Portland, Cumberland ...
Suggested address, 91 Danforth Street NW, is not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS ME-31 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
John Mussey House, 91 Danforth Street Northwest, Portland, Cumberland ...
Suggested address, 91 Danforth Street NW, is not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS ME-31 Building/structure dates: ca. 1800 Initial Construction
Fort Gorges, Hog Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Portland, Cumberland C...
Significance: It is a very prominent and intriguing part of the Casco Bay view from Portland's Fort Allen Park and Eastern Promenade, and so viewed by thousands every year. Architecturally it is an unchanged ex... More