Keywords: First Families of Virginia
Item 35443
Cyrus Libby on Battle of Bull Run, Alexandria, Va., 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Alexandria Media: Ink on paper
Item 67361
Virginia Somes Sanderson, Sheep Island, Somesville Harbor, 1949, ca. 1949
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1949 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
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
The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families
The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.
Site Page
The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.
Site Page
Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
Saga of a Sub Chaser S.C. 268 along Maine Coast
by DANIEL R CHRISTOPHER
A look back at a Sub Chaser Crew on duty along the Maine coastline near the end of World War I
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference