Cuala Press
Cuala Press (pronounced "KOO-la") operated by William Butler Yeats' sisters Elizabeth Corbett "Lolly" Yeats, and Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats, promoting Irish artistic heritage.
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Portland Public Library Digital Commons
Portland Public Library's Digital Commons is an open-access online portal featuring digitized materials that represent and preserve the history and community life of Portland, Maine. We are continually adding to these collections of maps, photographs, prints, periodicals, audio files, and various printed texts. These materials are drawn from the Library’s own . In addition to the links on this screen, please make note of the "Local History Collections link," which comprises a variety of additional archival series. There is also a link to the art works displayed in the Library building.
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The Maine Broadcaster, 1945-1949
Complete run of a Maine periodical, providing real-time glimpses into the "golden age of radio," including program listings and articles about national and local radio personalities.
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Goodwin Atlas of the City of Portland, 1882
The 1882 Portland City Engineer's atlas comprises 82 large-format plates, showing lot numbers and building footprints.
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Maine News Index
The Maine News Index (MNI) is a collection of indexed abstracts (not a fulltext database) that covers substantive Portland-related articles.
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Greater Portland Restaurant Menus collection
Greater Portland-area restaurant menus from a 67 diners, restaurants, and cafés- most of which were collected between 1982 and 1989.
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Children's Theatre of Maine Archives
Launched in 1924, by the Junior League of Portland with the intention of “bringing good theatre to children,” CTM is America’s oldest continuing children’s theatrical company.
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Portland Postcards
The images in this collection are from the Portland Room's collection of regional postcards.
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Peaks Island Archives
The Peaks Island Branch Library Archives include ephemera, cemetery records, scrapbooks, images, periodicals, and maps
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Casco Bay Weekly
The Casco Bay Weekly, a notably beloved free and independent newsweekly, ran from 1988 to 2004.
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Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Photo negatives (ca.1936-2005), owned by Portland Public Library, taken by Guy Gannett Publishing Company news photographers.
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Richards Standard Atlas of the City of Portland : 1914
The Richards Atlas (1914) includes Portland and South Portland, on 24 double page spreads.
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