Keywords: Quinby family
Item 48468
Thomas Quinby watch fob, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Media: Gold, garnet
Item 98887
Lucretia Day letter to Kiah Sewall, Portland, 1835
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1835 Location: Portland; Boston Media: Pencil on paper
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
Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'
Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.
