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Description
At the foot of Pearl Street in October 1887, Portland civil engineers posed with a survey transit before a sewer extension into Back Bay. Pictured from left to right, W.S. Edwards, G. N. Fernald, Jim Kelly, M. McDermott, P. Boyce, and G.H. Knight.
This photograph was included in an album owned by William S. Edwards. Bellow the image is written, “Back Bay Sewer - Foot of Pearl Street. Oct. 1887. 28 Oct., 1887.”
About This Item
- Title: Portland Civil Engineers at Pearl Street sewer, Portland, 1887
- Creator: William S. Edwards
- Creation Date: 1887-10-28
- Subject Date: 1887-10-28
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 11.4 cm x 18.4 cm
- Collection: Edwards Album
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Baxter Boulevard (Portland, Me.)
- Civil engineers--Maine
- Portland (Me.)--Sewer design
- Portraits, Group--Maine
- Sewerage--Maine
- Storm sewers--Maine
People
- Boyce, Patrick
- Edwards, William S
- Fernald, George N
- Foster, Edward
- Goodwin, William
- Knight, George
- McDermott, Michael
Other Keywords
- Back Bay
- Back Cove
- Baxter Boulevard
- Baxter, James Phinney
- Bayside
- carpentry
- construction
- dams
- documentary tradition
- drains
- engineering
- engineers
- labor
- Olmsted
- Parks, Portland
- Pearl Street
- portraiture
- pylons
- sewage
- sewer
- shoring
- survey transit
- tidal barrage
- tripod
- wetlands, Portland
- work
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City of Portland - Planning & Development389 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 756-8023
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