Keywords: tinware
Item 29228
Pincushion Box, Zachiariah Brackett Stevens Tinware, ca. 1820
Contributed by: Abplanalp Library, UNE Date: circa 1820 Location: Westbrook; Portland Media: Painted tinware
Item 20900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
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
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
