Keywords: Domestics
Item 25830
Domestic Science Class, Saco, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1912 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 65832
Domestic Science class, Farmington, ca. 1917
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: circa 1917 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
Item 37298
128-130 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Marcia W. Rackleff et als Use: Store Building
Item 37294
122-124 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Marcia W. Rackleff et als Use: Wholesale Grocer
Item 116307
Fitzgerald house, Brighton, VT, 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Brighton Client: George H. Fitzgerald Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Item 110427
Mr. Edgar Scott boathouse, Bar Harbor, 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Client: Edgar Scott Architect: Frederick L. Savage
Exhibit
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
Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.
Site Page
Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens
"In addition to “Examples of American Domestic Architecture”, Stevens’ work is documented in the 1990 book “John Calvin Stevens: Domestic…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Business District - 1857 to 1880
"Thomaston Business District - 1857 to 1880 North side of Main Street Business Block, Looking west to east, Thomaston, Maine 2008Thomaston…"
Story
Used, Abused, Battered, and Confused
by Anonymous (Maine Correctional Center)
The experience of domestic violence and the criminal justice system in Maine
Story
Biddeford and Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame Award recipient
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
With options to be a college French professor, became a lawyer, mayor, DA & District Court Judge
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Daily Life in 1820
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to explore and analyze primary source documents from the years before, during, and immediately after Maine became the 23rd state in the Union. Through close looking at documents, objects, and art from Maine during and around 1820, students will ask questions and draw informed conclusions about life at the time of statehood.
