Keywords: School girl art
Item 68365
Boys' Glee Club, Farmington State Normal School, 1925
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1925 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 55049
Good Will Girl Laying Flowers on G.W. Hinckley's Grave, Fairfield, ca. 1965
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1965 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Young men and women in the 19th century often went away from home -- sometimes for a few months, sometimes for longer periods -- to attend academies, seminaries, or schools run by individuals. While there, they wrote letters home, reporting on boarding arrangements and coursework undertaken, and inquired about the family at home.
Exhibit
Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.
Site Page
John Bapst Memorial High School
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor High School, Abbott Square, 1865
"The building at left is the girls' school. It was built in 1849. Martin wrote of the schools, "it was the intention to not be out done by any…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Story
Annette Addorio: 100+ years of memories from full life
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
From 1914 to 2018, highlights from my life in Biddeford
