Gateway to vacationland [electronic resource] : the making of Portland, Maine / John F. Bauman.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)ISBN:- 9781613761922
- 1613761929
- 974.1/91 23
- F29.P9 B28 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From beleaguered outpost to booming port city, 1632/1860 -- Civil War, the great fire, and re-shaping Portland's urban image -- J.B. Baxter's city: from seaport entrepot to port of call, 1882/1896 -- Urban growth, urban problems, and a new vision of the city beautiful: Portland as a progressive city, 1893/1915 -- The sunrise gateway in Depression and war -- Postwar Portland, 1943/1965 -- The gateway reborn, 1965/1985 -- Conclusion: service city, tourist city, modern Portland.
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