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Description
Farmington State Normal School home economics students enhanced their studies with practical child care, taking care of a baby who lived in a house on campus.
Students became attached to the baby under their care during their 10-week stay in the cottage. The students shared responsibility for running the cottage household, including budgeting for and preparing meals, planning and hosting luncheons, teas, and dinners for special guests, and caring for the baby.
The small group of students in residence each semester was meant to approximate the experience of the home life of a family of six people.
Here they are relaxing in the living room near the Christmas tree.
About This Item
- Title: Students with "Cottage Baby," Farmington, ca. 1950
- Creator: Knowlton & McLeary
- Creation Date: circa 1950
- Subject Date: circa 1950
- Location: Farmington, Franklin County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Infants--Maine--Farmington
- University of Maine Farmington--History
- Home economics--Maine--Farmington
- Orphans--Maine
- Farmington State Normal School (Me.)
- Farmington State Teachers College (Me.)
- College students--Maine--Farmington
Other Keywords
- college
- Cottage Baby
- education
- Farmington State Teachers College
- FSTC
- Home Ec
- Home Economics
- students
- UMF
- University of Maine at Farmington
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