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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

Teachers and students, Westbrook Seminary, 1892

Contributed by: Abplanalp Library, UNE Date: 1892 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Assessor's Record, 716-730 Stevens Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Westbrook Seminary Use: Chapel

Assessor's Record, 716-730 Stevens Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Westbrook Seminary Use: Workshop

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

Westbrook Junior College measurements, Portland, 1939

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1939 Location: Portland Client: Westbrook Junior College Architect: John Calvin Stevens

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.

Graduation Season

Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."

Abplanalp Library, UNE

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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