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[Old fishing docks, Portland, Maine] – Antique Print

[Old fishing docks, Portland, Maine], [between 1900 and 1915] — historic photograph
[Old fishing docks, Portland, Maine], [between 1900 and 1915]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This historic photograph of [Old fishing docks, Portland, Maine] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Old fishing docks, Portland, Maine]

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A yacht named *Fanny Reed* sits at the left edge of the frame, a reminder that pleasure boats and working fishing vessels shared the harbor at Portland, Maine. The Detroit Publishing Company, which sent photographers across the country to document towns and scenery for publication as views and postcards, recorded this waterfront in the years between 1900 and 1915. The wooden docks and piled gear show a working harbor, the kind of scene that drew visitors to the New England coast during that period.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1915]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from negative D4-72633. G 278" on negative. "Fanny Reed" on yacht at left. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 090322. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 709 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77012

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