Category: Education, Schools by town, Portland
Item 14165
Alice Harford Nelson, Portland, 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1885 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 14182
Walter H. Rich, Portland, 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1885 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
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.
Exhibit
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."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
