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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Call number of Original
13879
Creation Date
4-15-1939
Format of Original
4 x 5" gelatin silver negative
Description
The City of Portland and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) are repairing the Portland Observatory, reshingling it, and plan to open it as a museum early this Summer. Volunteer needleworkers are reproducing the signal flags to be used for the decoration of the Observatory.
Photo published in the Portland Press Herald, on 15 April 1939.
Recommended Citation
"W.P.A. renovation of Portland Observatory, 1939" (1939). 1930's. 4.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/decades_1930/4
Keywords
Portland, Me., Portland Observatory, Munjoy Hill
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