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Description
A three-alarm fire at Brown's Wharf on Commercial Street in Portland on November 9, 1903.
At left is Engine No. 1, an 1871 Amoskeag engine built as "Machigonne No. 1," the fire department's eighth steamer.
At right is Engine No. 9 as reassigned, a Portland Company-built engine, formerly known as the "Cumberland No. 3," built in 1870.
About This Item
- Title: Fire, Brown's Wharf, Portland, 1903
- Creation Date: 1903
- Subject Date: 1903
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 35 Folder 35/41
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Fires--Maine--Portland
- Fire fighters
- Amoskeag Company
- Fire fighting
- Cumberland No. 3 (Fire engine)
- Machigonne No. 1 (Fire engine)
- Fire engines & equipment
- Portland Fire Department (Me.)
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
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