Keywords: Mottoes
Item 68722
Motto book page, Farmington State Normal School, 1912
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1912 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper
Item 68685
Motto book page, Farmington State Normal School, 1886
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1887-12-19 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper
Item 116475
First Baptist Church, Portland, 1907
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1907 Location: Portland Client: First Baptist Church Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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
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."
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times
How very apt is the motto used by Hampden Academy which came from John Hampden’s home county of Buck’s which is “Vestigia nulla retrorsum”—No…
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900
Pluribus Unum” (“out of many, one,” the motto that appeared in the Great Seal of the United States of America in 1782) proudly on her stern.
