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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Milk Connection: Portland’S Infant Milk Station And Public Health Education, Annette Vance Dorey
The Milk Connection: Portland’S Infant Milk Station And Public Health Education, Annette Vance Dorey
Maine History
Progressive Era reformers worked to improve the health standards and living conditions of poor and immigrant populations in United States cities. In this article, Annette K. Vance Dorey highlights the often overlooked work of the nurses who managed “milk stations” - early public health clinics established for distributing clean milk in urban neighborhoods. Dorey argues that these nurses, who also conducted parent education classes and provided access to a range of health services, played an important role in the reduction of urban infant mortality rales and the development of the public health profession. Dorey is an educator specializing in teacher …
The Misses Martin’S School For Young Ladies Portland, Maine, 1803-1834, Yvonne Souliere
The Misses Martin’S School For Young Ladies Portland, Maine, 1803-1834, Yvonne Souliere
Maine History
During the Early Republic, education for the daughters of Portland's elite families usually included “ornamental” subjects such as needlework, music, and painting in addition to the “useful” subjects of reading history, arithmetic, and geography. This curriculum mirrored that of fashionable schools for young ladies in New York, Philadelphia, and, of course, Boston. The “Misses Martin's School for Young Ladies, ” opened in 1803 by the English “gentlewoman” Penelope Martin, instructed girls in “useful” and “ornamental ”subjects while also offering Portland’s best families the added cache of sending their daughters to a British-style boarding school for training as “proper” young ladies. …
Oral Interview Of Ralph Green By Mazie Hough And Peggy Danielson For The Feminist Oral History Project (Part #1), Mazie Hough, Peggy Danielson
Oral Interview Of Ralph Green By Mazie Hough And Peggy Danielson For The Feminist Oral History Project (Part #1), Mazie Hough, Peggy Danielson
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted for the Feminist Oral History Project during 1998 by Mazie Hough and Peggy Danielson concerning the history of Spruce Run.
Maine Now Pac Candidate Analysis And Endorements (September 1998), National Organization Of Women - Maine State Conference Staff
Maine Now Pac Candidate Analysis And Endorements (September 1998), National Organization Of Women - Maine State Conference Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Thompson Document 18: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Bridget Croft, Henrietta Thompson
Thompson Document 18: Letter From Henrietta Thompson To Bridget Croft, Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson Papers
A final letter from Henrietta Thompson to Bridget Croft. It seems that the telephone conversation that prompted this letter was not an entirely felicitous one, and that Henrietta’s recommendation that Croft publish A Sense of Purpose was perhaps mistaken for a promise that Thompson would act on Croft’s behalf to that end.
Wome In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program 1997-1998, Womein In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program, University Of Maine Staff
Wome In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program 1997-1998, Womein In The Curriculum And Women's Studies Program, University Of Maine Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (May 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (May 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Spring 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Spring 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Struggling To Make Ends Meet In The Maine Economy (1988), Stephanie Seguino, Sandy Butler
Struggling To Make Ends Meet In The Maine Economy (1988), Stephanie Seguino, Sandy Butler
Academic Literature and Research Reports
No abstract provided.
Feminist Voices (Jan 1998), Greater Bangor Chapter Of The National Organization Of Women Staff
Feminist Voices (Jan 1998), Greater Bangor Chapter Of The National Organization Of Women Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Now Times (Winter 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Now Times (Winter 1998), National Organization For Women - Maine Chapter Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.