Portland Harbor Museum is pleased to present seven new exhibits for 2009 including:

Good Work, Sister: Women Shipyard Workers during World War II

Faces of the Working Waterfront: Photographs of Nance Trueworthy

Harbor Views: Photographs of Dean Abramson

Vintage Postcards

New England’s Titanic: The Steamer Portland Disaster

To the Islands: A History of Casco Bay Lines

A New Deal for Portland: A 1930s’ Vision

 

Picturing Portland: A Century of Change

Our exhibit will be on display at the Ocean Gateway Terminal in Portland through December 31, 2009.

This exhibit pairs images from the museum’s Angell Collection of century-old photographs with contemporary photographs of the same scenes. Each set of images reveals changes,

or the absence of change, in the local landscape. Compare the chaos following the 1893 Munjoy Hill Reservoir break with a peaceful contemporary view of the harbor. In another pairing, the trains of the Maine Central Depot have been replaced by modern shipping containers. Two images of Longfellow Square show little change. This look at Greater Portland then and now features fifty-five photographs.