Keywords: universities
Item 71804
Colby College, Waterville, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Waterville Media: Linen texture postcard
Item 64325
Scott Hall, Farmington State Teachers College, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1960 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 36694
135-137 Chadwick Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland University Use: School
Item 42824
Assessor's Record, 303-309 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Universal Laundry Inc. Use: Chimney
Item 149154
University of Maine at Machias preliminary site plan, Machias, 1987
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1987 Location: Machias Client: University of Maine, Machias Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Item 111704
Seton Hall Student Union sketch, South Orange, NJ, ca. 2000
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 2000 Location: South Orange Client: Seton Hall University Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson, Architect
Exhibit
A Brief History of Colby College
Colby originated in 1813 as Maine Literary and Theological Institution and is now a small private liberal arts college of about 1,800 students. A timeline of the history and development of Colby College from 1813 until the present.
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.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Maine Folklife Center, University of Maine
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Story
From France to Farmington
by Celine Couillaut
I arrived in Maine and never left.
Story
From Istanbul to Machias
by Zeynep Turk
Zeynep Turk talks about moving from Istanbul, Turkey to Machias, Maine for school.
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: Integration of Longfellow's Poetry into American Studies
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
We explored Longfellow's ability to express universality of human emotions/experiences while also looking at the patterns he articulated in history that are applicable well beyond his era. We attempted to link a number of Longfellow's poems with different eras in U.S. History and accompanying literature, so that the poems complemented the various units. With each poem, we want to explore the question: What is American identity?