Keywords: Dorm
Item 26874
Dorm room, Jefferson CCC camp, ca. 1933
Contributed by: Maine Forest Service Date: circa 1933 Location: Jefferson Media: Photographic print
Item 51992
Dorm room at Marie-Joseph Academy, Biddeford Pool, ca. 1950
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1950 Location: Biddeford Pool Media: Postcard
Item 135760
W.W. Thomas House drawing, Portland, 1915-1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915–1927 Location: Portland Clients: W. W. Thomas; Mary Cate Thomas Architect: Frederick A. Tompson; Frederick A. Tompson, Architect
Exhibit
Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees
While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.
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.
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Colby College Special Collections
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
Scientist Turned Artist Making Art Out of Trash
by Ian Trask
Bowdoin College alum returns to midcoast Maine to make environmentally conscious artwork
