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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
93768C-2
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
9-23-1959
Format of Original
4 x 5" gelatin silver negative
Description
Full exterior view of the Asa Hanson Block building, 548 Congress Street, from northwest. Boston Shoe Store (548 1/2 Congress Street) at left Fanny Farmer Candies (550 Congress Street) at right. Western edge of the F.W. Woolworth store at left. The Hanson Block is at the northeast corner of Congress Street and Oak Street.
The building was designed by Portland architects Frederick Augustus Tompson and Francis Fassett, in 1889. The name "Perry" above the entrance is that of building developer Charles Perry.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 23 September 1959
Recommended Citation
"Asa Hanson Block (Boston Shoe Store and Fanny Farmer Candies), 1959" (1959). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Newspapers (Guy Gannett) Still Film Negatives. 467.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/467
Keywords
Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Businesses, Congress Street
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