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Description
This bird's eye view of Portland depicts two days after the Great Fire of July 4th, 1866. Black & Case took the photograph, and and G. Bowker put it in perspective.
The federal government provided tents to house the people whose homes were destroyed by the worst urban fire in the United States up to that time.
About This Item
- Title: View of Portland after the great fire, 1866
- Creator: B.B. Russell & Co.; John Hankerson
- Creation Date: 1866
- Subject Date: 1866-07-06
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper, lithograph
- Dimensions: 48 cm x 56 cm
- Local Code: Map F 501
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Black & Case Photographers
- Dwellings--Maine--Portland
- Fires--Maine--Portland--Aerial views
- J. Mayer & Co. Lithographers
- Maine--Aerial views
- Portland (Me.)--Aerial views
- Portland (Me.)--Fire, 1866--Aerial views
- Ruins--Maine--Portland
- Tents--Maine--Portland
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
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