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Portland past and present, issued under the endorsement of the Portland board of trade and city government

Charles Bancroft Gillespie · 1899 · Scanned text · Free in the US

80,596 words · about 5 h 39 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1899, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/a17000110); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Charles Bancroft Gillespie
Language
English
Published
1899
Length
80,596 words · about 5 h 39 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (4)
  1. Contents about 1 h 36 min
  2. I about 3 h 59 min
  3. Index To Contents about 2 min
  4. Index To Contents— Continued about 2 min
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Contents

Concise History; Old Landmarks; Picturesque Scenes; Institutions; Churches: Schools; Statements Regarding Health, Wealth and Prosperity; Advantage of Locality as a Place of Business, Residence and Summer Resort ; Resources and Opportunities; Board of Trade; City Government; Visit of the Royal Scots ; Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Present and Former Residents ; a 1 so Those Active in Business, Professional and Public Life; Manufacturing, Trade and Commerce.

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Evening Express Publishing Company,

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