With a view to the southeast, this photograph, taken from the tower of City Hall (1869-1908), affords a view of the Old Port and Portland Harbor in the summer of 1887.

Exchange Street runs from north to south from the lower edge to the center of the image. With its prominent clock tower, the First National Bank building, on the left-hand corner of Exchange and Middle Street, can be noted just left of center.

William S. Edwards, a civil engineer who worked in City hall from 1872-1906 included this image in an album he compiled in 1887.