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    Collection

    Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

    Document Type

    Still Image

    Call number of Original

    100100B

    Contributing Institution

    Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

    Location

    Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA

    Creation Date

    4-20-1962

    Format of Original

    4 x 5" gelatin silver negative

    Description

    Full exterior view of Jordan's Ready to Eat Meats Inc. building, 38 India Street (northwest corner of Fore Street and India Street), from northeast. Fore Street at left. Middle Street, in background.

    The newly-built manufacturing plant for Jordan's, which had relocated from 127-137 Commercial Street, was part of a neighborhood urban renewal project. Along the India Street wall of the building is a "Vine-Deer-Chatham Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Authority Project Area" sign, referring to the nearby elimated Vine Street, Deer Street, and Chatham Street.

    Photo published in the Evening Express, on 20 April 1962

    Keywords

    Portland, Me., East End, Munjoy Hill, Businesses, India Street

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    In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted.