Keywords: The College Hero
Item 12794
Sloop Hero weathervane, Colby College, Waterville, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Colby College Special Collections Date: circa 1900 Location: Waterville Media: Photographic print
Item 74185
'Sorority Girls,' Jefferson Theatre, Portland, 1912
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1912 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
A Brief History of Colby College
Colby originated in 1813 as Maine Literary and Theological Institution and is now a small private liberal arts college of about 1,800 students. A timeline of the history and development of Colby College from 1813 until the present.
Exhibit
Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
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Colby College Special Collections
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Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 1 of 3
"By 1825, the dress was altered and re-constructed, perhaps as a costume (known at the time as "fancy dress") in homage to the Marquis, or as an early…"
Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
