Keywords: Ricker Junior College
Item 9617
Ricker Classical Institute production, ca. 1926
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1926 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Item 29223
Teachers and students, Westbrook Seminary, 1892
Contributed by: Abplanalp Library, UNE Date: 1892 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
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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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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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