Keywords: Class of 1923
Item 101192
Normal School graduating class, Farmington, 1923
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1923 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 122
Americanization class, Boys Club, Portland, 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1923 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Exhibit
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Hampden Academy
"In 1923, the school finally received a cement foundation and, six years later, to end a decade which had seen some major improvements made to the…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
