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Item 10627

Yearbook entry, Edmund S. Muskie, 1936

Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1936 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 6999

John Bertram Hall at Bates College, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency

Item 10619

Edmund S. Muskie Archives Dedication, Lewiston, September 28, 1985

Contributed by: Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library Date: 1985-09-28 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109463

Bates College Dormatories, Lewiston, 1898-1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898–1905 Location: Lewiston; Lewiston Client: Bates College Architect: George M. Coombs; Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects

Item 109670

Plan of Trusses Hawthorn Hall, Bates College, Lewiston, 1897-1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897–1904 Location: Lewiston Client: Bates College Architect: Coombs, Gibbs and Wilkinson Architects

Item 111491

Isaacson residence floor plan and presentation drawing, Lewiston, 1960

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1960 Location: Lewiston Client: Philip Isaacson Architect: F. Frederick Bruck; F. Frederick Bruck, Architect

Online Exhibits

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Students on porch, Farmington State Normal School, ca. 1928

We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

Exhibit

George French dorm room, Bates College, ca. 1901

Maine Through the Eyes of George W. French

George French, a native of Kezar Falls and graduate of Bates College, worked at several jobs before turning to photography as his career. He served for many years as photographer for the Maine Development Commission, taking pictures intended to promote both development and tourism.

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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."