W.P.A. renovation of Portland Observatory, 1939

The City of Portland and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) are repairing the Portland Observatory, reshingling it, and plan to open it as a museum early this Summer. Volunteer needleworkers are reproducing the signal flags to be used for the decoration of the Observatory. Photo published in the Portland Press Herald, on 15 April 1939.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/decades_1930/1003/thumbnail.jp