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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
55686
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
4-6-1949
Format of Original
4 x 5" gelatin silver negatives
Description
Views of Stolkner Brothers Market, 363 Congress Street (northwest corner of Congress Street and Pearl Street). The grocery business owned and operated by brothers Abraham Stolkner and Jacob Stolkner had an additional store on Island Avenue (Peaks Island). See this image, for a view of the block including Stolkner's, the Park Store (361 Congress Street), and First Baptist Church (353 Congress Street), taken in 1960.
Left image: Exterior view of Stolkner Brothers Market, from southeast. Right image: Interior view of the store, with the store's workers. Photos published in the Portland Press Herald, on 6 April 1949 See Additional Files link, below, for extra view of the grocery store's interior.
Recommended Citation
"Stolkner Brothers Market, 1949" (1949). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 606.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/606
Stolkner Brothers Market - interior view - PH 6 APR 1949
Keywords
Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Businesses, Congress Street