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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
10466
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
7-9-1938
Format of Original
4 x 5" gelatin silver negative
Description
Full exterior view of Philco Wholesalers, Inc., 919 Congress Street, from southeast. The store specialized in sales and service of Philco radios, including parts and vacuum tubes required for radios (prior to the development of transistor technology in the early 1950s).
See Additional Files link- below- for a photo of a full-size Philco radio, taken inside the store.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 9 July 1938
Recommended Citation
"Philco Wholesalers, Inc., 1938" (1938). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 617.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/617
Philco Radio - EX 9 JUL 1938
Keywords
Portland, Me., West End, Parkside, Businesses, Congress Street
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