Keywords: St Joseph's Orphanage
Item 67732
Swimming pool, St. Joseph's Orphanage, Lewiston, 1963
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1963-07-02 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 67731
Christmas at St Joseph's Orphanage, Lewiston, 1946
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1946 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House
"… and in 1906, a Rebekah's Lodge opened an orphanage near Manhattan, Kansas. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Daughters of Rebekah still…"
Site Page
Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
Sister Therese Bouthot:Life of service as a Good Shepherd sister
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
From humble beginnings to playing a leadership role in the service of others
