Keywords: Westbrook College collection
Item 29175
S. H. McCollester, Westbrook Seminary, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Abplanalp Library, UNE Date: circa 1865 Location: Portland; Westbrook Media: Carte de visite
Item 29221
Sarah Ray laureate of arts degree, Westbrook Seminary, 1885
Contributed by: Abplanalp Library, UNE Date: 1885-06-25 Location: Deering; Westbrook; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 151533
Westbrook Junior College preliminaries, Portland, 1939-1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1939–1946 Location: Portland Client: Westbrook Junior College Architect: John Calvin Stevens II
Item 151534
Westbrook Junior College measurements, Portland, 1939
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1939 Location: Portland Client: Westbrook Junior College Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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.
Exhibit
Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook
Cultivation of silkworms and manufacture of silk thread was touted as a new agricultural boon for Maine in the early 19th century. However, only small-scale silk production followed. In 1874, the Haskell Silk Co. of Westbrook changed that, importing raw silk, and producing silk machine twist threat, then fabrics, until its demise in 1930.
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Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
