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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
100244A-1
Creation Date
5-10-1962
Format of Original
120mm gelatin silver negative
Description
View of northeast corner of Smith Street at Oxford Street, from west. Smith Street in foreground. House at 49 Oxford Street in left foreground. Oxford Street at right. Anderson Street, at right background.
Article caption:
“Bayside Project Three Years Old”
“Much of the project area still contains blighting influences- disabled automobiles, rundown buildings, vacant lots, and the scars of vandalism. Among the chief problems is the existence of houses which have been spared on the condition that owners bring them up to standard. In many cases, the owners have given up and the Portland Renewal Authority has stepped in and torn the buildings down, creating new vacant lots...”
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 10 May 1962.
Recommended Citation
"Oxford Street from Smith Street, 1962" (1962). Street Scenes - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 136.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_street/136
Keywords
Portland, Me., East End, Bayside, Portland Renewal Authority, Urban renewal
Image Location
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