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Staff of Biddeford High School Olympian, 1924

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1924 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Commencement Issue of The Olympian, Biddeford High School, 1926

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1926 Location: Biddeford Media: Paper-bound yearbook/magazine

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5 School Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary Alice Durgin Use: Dwelling - Two family

26 School Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Margaret B. Donahue Use: Dwelling - Two family

Grade School for the City of South Portland, South Portland, 1927-1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1930 Location: South Portland Client: City of South Portland Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood

From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.

East Grand School

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"The May School A unique early school was known as the May School. The May sisters, Julia and Sara, operated a private school for girls in Farmington…"

Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant

My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.