Keywords: asylum
Item 9401
Letter of thanks from Female Orphan Asylum, Portland, 1856
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1856-10-15 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Item 67544
Santa Claus at the Healey Asylum, Lewiston, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1950 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 62752
28-40 Mellen Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Asylum Use: Asylum
Item 70374
139-151 Pleasant Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Female Orphan Asylum Use: Orphan Asylum
Item 151736
Sweetser Children's home, Saco, 1948-1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1951 Location: Saco Client: unknown Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Exhibit
Pigeon's Mainer Project: who decides who belongs?
Street artist Pigeon's artwork tackles the multifaceted topic of immigration. He portrays Maine residents, some who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants—people who are often marginalized through state and federal policies—to ask questions about the dynamics of power in society, and who gets to call themselves a “Mainer.”
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy
"… Hospital, the mentally ill could go to the State Asylum for the Insane in Augusta, and the poor could receive some degree of care in the almshouse."
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community
"Elizabeth’s Catholic Orphan Asylum, and in 1968 St. Elizabeth’s Child Development Center. Residents like Deborah Minton, who lived at St."
Story
Born in Bangor 1936
by Priscilla M. Naile
Spending time at the Bangor Children's Home
Story
Aimé Muyombano, Phd - From adversity to community service
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Fleeing atrocities in Africa, Professor Muyombano dedicates himself to a life of community service
