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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.