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Description
The engine control room of engine No. 49, the passenger side-wheeler State of Maine.
The room features mahogany woodwork and brass gauges and fittings. The engine and fittings were built by the Portland Company.
The State of Maine was built in 1882 for the International Steamship Company in Bath. She was 241 feet long and weighed 1,410 gross tons.
About This Item
- Title: State of Maine engineer's control station, 1882
- Creation Date: 1882
- Subject Date: 1882
- Location: ME
- Media: Albumen print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 37-30
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Shipfitting
- State of Maine (Ship)--Interiors--Photographs
- Marine engines
- Engine rooms-1880-1890--Photographs
- Paddler steamers
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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