Keywords: female teachers
Item 21023
John Hubbard on female seminary, 1850
Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1850 Location: Gorham Media: Ink on paper
Item 21026
Horace Mann to Josiah Pierce, 1841
Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: 1841 Location: Gorham Media: Ink on paper
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
When America entered the Great War in 1917, the government sent out pleas for help from American women, many of whom responded at the battle front and on the home front.
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation
"Frances Grayson On October 10, 1927, female aviator Frances Wilson Grayson, along with her crew, landed her Sikorsky S-36 amphibian plane the "Dawn"…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Mattanawcook Academy
"… male teachers were paid $4.18 a week compared to female teachers at $1.52 a week. They had two classes in 1849, and they were “General English” and…"
Story
Sarah Jane Poli: Biddeford’s first female school superintendent
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
An Italian immigrant's daughter is key to a family grocery store and a leader in the school system
Story
Bonita Pothier-the definition of a trailblazer
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project
Overcoming the challenges of being Biddeford’s first female mayor is but a part of her contributions
