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Historical Items Showing 3 of 770 View All

Item 74889

Title: Universal electric stove, ca. 1922

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1922

Media: Steel, porcelain, copper

Item 74881

Title: Universal Electric Mixabeater, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1915

Media: Aluminum, steel

Item 13026

Title: Universal Laundry, Portland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1910

Location: Portland

Media: Glass negative

Tax Records Showing 3 of 9 View All

Item 42823

Address: 303-309 Cumberland Avenue, Portland

Owner in 1924: Universal Laundry Inc.

Use: Laundry

Item 42824

Address: 303-309 Cumberland Avenue, Portland

Owner in 1924: Universal Laundry Inc.

Use: Chimney

Item 50010

Address: 69-73 Elm Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Universal Laundry, Inc.

Use: Land only

Exhibits Showing 3 of 12 View All

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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.

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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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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.