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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
97917C-1
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
5-20-1961
Format of Original
120mm gelatin silver negative
Description
Exterior view of house at 87 Salem Street, from southeast.
[Public Housing Referendum support photo]
Portion of article caption:
“Your Vote Can Help Improve Housing Here”
“Urban renewal is slowly upgrading and preserving specific sections of the city. Blighted homes still blot the city’s landscape. In some cases, displaced families from renewal areas have moved to other sections of the city into equally squalid living conditions.”
[Referendum date: 22 May 1961]
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 20 May 1961.
Recommended Citation
"87 Salem Street, 1961" (1961). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 132.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/132
Keywords
Portland, Me., West End, Urban renewal, Salem Street
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