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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
145828-1
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
8-23-1985
Format of Original
35mm gelatin silver negative
Description
Full exterior view of Our Place building, 54 York Street, from northeast. Maple Street at left, York Street at right. Commercial Street visible in left background. Building at 85 York Street (Portland Photographics) in right background.
Our Place, a nonprofit community center, was created in 1972, "providing social activities, suppers, games, and music to low-income people from all over Greater Portland." The building had been bought through the Portland City Council with $35,000.00 from the former federal Model Cities program and turned over to the nonprofit organization.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 23 August 1985.
See Additional Files links- below- for 3 photos of Our Place, published in the Evening Express on 29 September 1975.
Recommended Citation
"Our Place, 1985" (1985). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 718.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/718
Our Place - Evening Express, 29 SEP 1975
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Our Place - Evening Express, 29 SEP 1975
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Our Place - Evening Express, 29 SEP 1975
Keywords
Portland, Me., Old Port, Community centers, York Street
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