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Home Ec. Girls Have Practice House, The Maine Campus

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

In accordance with the Smith-Hughes Act, North Hall is being used as a practice house for the Home Economics seniors. The Smith-Hughes Act was enacted in 1917, providing federal aid to states to promote pre-collegiate vocational education in agricultural and industrial trades and in home economics.

Woodland, 1919, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Woodland, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Island Falls, 1919, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Island Falls, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Eagle Lake, 1919, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Eagle Lake, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm.

Stockholm, 1919, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

A map of Stockholm, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color map is 64 x 54 cm.

Mapleton, 1919, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

A map of Mapleton, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color map is 64 x 54 cm. Businesses that appear on the map include Mapleton Mill Company and Starch Factory, Mapleton Flour & Feed Co., E. W. Fernald, Smith & Dudley, Griffin & Doble, United Farmers, O. Higgins, and the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad.

Fort Fairfield, 1919, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Fort Fairfield, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Limestone, 1919, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Limestone, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Of Maine - Annual Report, 1919, Woman's Christian Temperance Union Of Maine Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

"Maine" (Excerpt From The Proceedings Of The National Woman Suffrage Association Convention) 1919, National Woman Suffrage Association Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Editorial Regarding Samuel Courtney, Maine Campus Staff

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Editorial from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding of what they describe as a "hazing" incident of Black students Roger and Samuel Courtney who were tarred and feathered.

A photograph of the incident is featured in the collection.

How Maine Won, (The Woman Citizen April 1919), The Woman Citizen Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Research Notes: Big Thunder, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm

Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers

Fannie Hardy Eckstorm's notes on Clara Neptune's recollections of Big Thunder (Frank Loring), Molly Mollases, Joseph Lollases, Dr. Sebattis Mitchell, and other Wabanakis, The file also includes a photograph of Big Thunder. These were digitized from box 4, folder 38 of the Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers.

Diary For 01 01 To 04 09, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 07 07 To 09 19, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 04 10 To 07 06, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine.

Diary For 10 04 To 12 31, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine.

Financial Records, 1919, Willis Carter

Willis Carter Diaries

Pages from a diary kept by Willis Carter, a resident of West Pembroke, Maine. This sections includes information about cash paid and cash received during the year of 1919.

Houlton, 1919, Sanborn Map Company

Sanborn Maps of Maine

Maps of Houlton, Maine, at a scale of 1:600 or 50 ft. to an inch. The original color maps are on sheets 64 x 54 cm. Sheet 1 includes an index of the area covered on the remaining sheets.

Photograph Of Courtney Brothers Tarred And Feathered, Author Unknown

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Photograph of two Black students Samuel and Roger Courtney tarred and feathered While at the time this incident was described as "hazing" incident carried out by University of Maine a modern interpretation, by scholars such as Karen Sieber, Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, was that this was actually a racist attack.

Sieber has featured this incident in her, Visualizing the Red Summer database and archive on the topic of the Red Summer of 1919, a term given to a nationwide wave of violence against African Americans that year.

More information on this incident can be elsewhere in this …

The Geology Of Mount Desert Island, F. Bascom

Maine History Documents

"Revised and reprinted from the Bulletin of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, vol. XVII, No. 4, October 1919."

The Sieur De Monts National Monument As A Hugenot Memorial, George Bucknam Dorr

Maine History Documents

No abstract provided.

The Sieur De Monts National Monument And The Wild Gardens Of Acadia: A Reprint From The Journal Of The International Garden Club, George B. Dorr

Maine History Documents

No abstract provided.

Fourth Annual Chauffeurs' Ball At The Casino, Bar Harbor, Friday Evening, August 22, 1919, Committee Of Chauffeurs

Maine History Documents

The souvenir program from a charity ball in Bar Harbor, Maine, hosted by an organization known as the Committee of Chauffeurs.

The Luther Gulick Camps On Lake Sebago, Charlotte V. Gulick

Maine History Documents

A brochure providing the history of the Luther Gulick Camps on Sebago Lake and explaining the connection to Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick and the Y.M.C.A.

Digitized from Box 1, folder 1, Camping in Maine Collection, MS 83.

Phi Eta Kappa, War Record Of Great World War, 1914-1918, Phi Eta Kappa

General University of Maine Publications

A scanned version of a pamphlet prepared by Phi Eta Kappa to provide a record of those who were members of the University of Maine fraternity who served in the Great War of 1914-1918.

Maine's Great Coast Resort, Bar Harbor, The Gateway Of The Lafayette National Park, Bar Harbor Publicity Committee

Maine History Documents

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of The Financial Condition And Receipts And Expenditures Of The Town Of Alfred Maine Together With The Reports Of Selectmen, School Committee, Town Clerk, Treasurer, Directors And Librarian Of Parsons Memorial Library For The Year Ending February 21st 1919, Alfred (Me.)

Maine Town Documents

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of Assistant Emergency Demonstration Agent In Southern Aroostook County For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1919, J. H. Philbrick

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.

Cooperative Extension Work In Agriculture And Home Economics, Annual Report Of County Agent (Aroostook County), December 31, 1918-June 30, 1919, Aroostook County Extension Association, John H. Philbrick

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.