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Colby College Special Collections

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Architecture & Landscape database - Eaton W. Tarbell

"By the 1960s, Bowdoin and Colby had abandoned the Georgian for the modern. Eaton Tarbell was a larger-than-life figure, sporting a signature bow tie…"

Skowhegan Community History - Bloomfield Academy

"… have had a better proposal, because they won and Colby was built on College Avenue in Waterville, Maine."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"2013, web.colby.edu/activism/stories/frederick-douglass-speaks-at-colby/. Accessed 8 Mar. 2017. "Temperance movement." Britannica School…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 2 of 3

"… of education, he was a trustee of Waterville (now Colby) College and a trustee and overseer of Bowdoin College."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… schooling, he was a trustee of Waterville (now Colby) College, a trustee and overseer of Bowdoin College, principal owner of Maine’s first cotton…"

Life on a Tidal River - Four Important Women of Bangor

"… Baker, 1964- (Person) - Colby College Libraries, Colby College Libraries, link.colby.edu/resource/GvyPO06Fuog/."

Early Maine Photography - The Vickery-Shettleworth Collection

"In his sophomore year at Colby College, Shettleworth wrote a paper entitled "The Daguerreotypists of Portland, Maine." Many of Earle G."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec's 1911 Centennial Celebration - Page 2 of 2

"Anton Marquardt of Colby College (in Waterville, Maine), formerly of Lübeck University, Germany,” continued the Herald coverage."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"(Butler’s History of Farmington) Both Colby College and Bowdoin College have some of his early music, which includes some musical presentations, in…"