Keywords: two-year colleges
Item 7161
Bliss College on Lisbon Street, Lewiston, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency
Item 64265
Agnes Mantor, Farmington, ca. 1955
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1955 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
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
Practical Nursing in Waterville
The Maine School of Practical Nursing opened a facility in Waterville in 1957 and continued teaching practical nursing there until about 1980 when changes in the profession and in the state's educational structure led to its demise.
Site Page
Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence
"… the first resident, who arrived at McAuley with a two-year old daughter, successfully transitioned out of the program, earned a college degree, and…"
Story
One of the first abstract painters in Maine
by William Manning
I have grown as a painter in ways I might not have if I moved to New York
Story
Don Bisson - Living his convictions
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Returning after a career in New York City, Don has dedicated his life to addressing food insecurity.
