Courtesy of Portland Public Library Special Collections and Archives

A Press Herald photograph taken in September 1960 shows a waitress taking an order at the F. W. Woolworth lunch counter on Congress Street. A similar scene was found at Beals Ice Cream on Moulton Street on July 29, 2015 (below).

Jill Brady/Staff Photographer

The Portland Room of the Portland Public Library is in the process of organizing and conserving the archival collection of original Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram and Evening Express photographic negatives — a major collection that spans from 1937 to 2005. Find more photos at www.pressherald.com/flashback/.