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English: An engraving of Portland's town hall (later city hall) in the 1830s. It was built 1825 in Market Square (now Monument Square). This image was scanned from the book Portland City Guide, compiled by the workers of the Writers' Project of the US Works Progress Administration, and published in Portland, Maine in 1940. The original engraving is of unknown age, but likely much older than 1940.
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Source The book Portland City Guide, published 1940: https://archive.org/details/portlandcityguid00writrich/page/18/mode/2up
Author Author of the engraving is unknown; the book was "Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Maine"

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City Hall of Portland, Maine, USA (1825), depicted in the 1830s

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