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Description
Like its large counterparts, Boston and New York, Portland also had its "rum row," an area outside the U.S. territorial 3-mile limit where large vessels lined up and sold liquor to small, fast boats like this one which brought the liquor to shore. Building such craft for bootleggers brought a brisk business to Downeast boatyards. Here the Rum Runner Dixie III is tied up at a Portland Wharf.
About This Item
- Title: Suspected Rum Runner Dixie III, Portland, 1927
- Creation Date: circa 1927
- Subject Date: circa 1927
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 18.3 cm x 10.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.14591
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Alcohol trafficking--Maine--Portland
- Boats and boating--Maine--Portland
- Dixie III (Boat)
- Wharves--Maine--Portland
- Winter--Maine--Portland
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