Category: Education, Schools by town, Lewiston
Item 17477
Lewiston High School, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1931 Location: Lewiston Media: Postcard
Item 67530
St. Peter's School, Lewiston, 1937
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1937 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
Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."