Portland Public Library (Portland, Me.)
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found: NUCMC data from Maine Folklife Center for Trappan, G. Papers, 1889-1998(Portland Library [i.e., Portland Institute and Public Library] reorganized and renamed Portland Public Library in 1889)
found: Its WWW home page, May 05, 2004(Portland Public Library)
found: Email from Portland Public Lib., Oct. 20, 2008(private library formed in Falmouth (later Portland) in 1763; books scattered and lost in 1775; in 1780 society re-formed and named the Falmouth Library Association [no publs. in LC database]; in 1827, the Portland Athenaeum was incorp., buying the property of the old library and using its books as the nucleus for the new collection; building destroyed and collection lost in Great Fire of 1866; in 1867, application for a new library to the Legislature to be called Portland Institute and Public Library; new building opened in 1889, also the year when the library's name changed to Portland Public Library)
found: MWA/NAIP files, Feb. 23, 2009(hdg.: Portland Public Library (Portland, Me.))
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2004-05-05: new
2012-06-19: revised
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