COLLECTION IN MUSEUM ARCHIVES OF
EASTERN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL MEMORABILIA

The reunion for the Eastern State Normal School alumni and alumnae offered perfect opportunity for the Museum to exhibit a selection of its ESNS material. Below is a brief summary of the collection; most of the material was derived from the Castine Alumni Association Camp gathered by Ermo Scott when the buildings were no longer used. Other donors include Charles Danforth, Ellenore Doudiet, Dorothy Farnham, Sally Foote, Roland Howard, Patricia Hutchins, Hildegarde Perkins, Philip Perkins, and Doris Raynard. We continue to receive items to add to this collection; at the June reunion, alumna Jodi Stover presented a group photo, taken in 1910, of students and faculty which included her mother, Vivian Soper.

INDIVIDUAL CLASS PICTURES:

• 1870s - Album, 50 identified
  Amos W. Plummer, Class of 1872
  (taken at age 86/correspondence to alumni)
  
• 1889 - 36 identified, 20 unidentified
• 1890 - 1 (group picture)
• 1891 - 3 identified plus 1 (group picture)
• 1892 - Album, 29 identified
  2 additional identified plus 1 (group picture)
• 1894 - 3 identified plus 2 (group pictures)
• 1895 - 6 identified
• 1896 - 5 identified plus 1 (group picture)
• 1897 - 73 identified plus 1 (group picture)
• 1898 - 1 identified plus 1 (group picture)
• 1899 - 16 identified plus 1 (group picture)
• 1900 - 66 identified
• 1901 - 3 identified
• 1903 - 47 identified
• 1905 - 32 identified, 6 unidentified
• 1914 - 10 identified
• 1921 - 2 (group pictures - 8" x 28" and 8" x 19")
• 1923 - 1 (group picture - 10" x 28")
  “My Class Mates” - album compiled by Doris Raynard
  
• Miscellaneous
  Individuals identified but not dated
  Individuals not identified
  Group pictures of students and/or faculty

OTHER PHOTOGRAPHY:

• Composite of 11 faculty members (circa 1915).
• Large portraits of three of the four ESNS presidents
  Grenville T. Fletcher (1867-1879)
  Roliston Woodbury (1879-1888)
  Albert L. Richardson (1888-1920)
  . . . and early teacher, Mary E. Hughes.
  
• ESNS Buildings.

CASTINE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION:

• Castine Alumni Camp, Sandy Point, Maine, 1931.
• Camp Songs of the Castine Normal School Alumni Association, 1898.
  Treasurer’s Records, 1884 - 1927.
  Certificates of Stock, Nov. 1889 - May 1922.

PUBLICATIONS:

• Faculties of the New England Normal Schools, 1898. Course of Study for the Public Schools of Castine, Maine. 1904.
• The ESNS Echo
  Thanksgiving Number 1898, May 1900,
  November 1900, May 1902.
• The ESNS Catalogue and Circular
  1874, 1884, 1893-95, 1899
  1900-03, 1905, 1908-09, 1915, 1918.
• The ESNS Biennial Bulletin
  1938-39, 1939-40, 1940-41, and 1941-42.
• The Pilot (year book)
  1920s: 1925-26-27 and 1929
  1930s: all but 1932
  1940s: 1940-41-42.
• Proofs for The Pilot - 1935, 1939 -41.
• PROGRAM Seventy-ninth Annual Convention American Institute of Instruction, Castine, Maine July 6th to 8th, 1909.
• Eleventh Annual Session . . . 1941, Eastern State Normal School, Home of The Maine School Band Chorus and Orchestra Camp.
• The Wild Gardener
  The Life & Selected Writings of Eloise Butler, Martha Hellander, 1992 (An 1873 graduate of ESNS).

MISCELLANEOUS:

• Diplomas, Teachers Certificates 1894(2), 1899, 1928.
• Programs for Graduating Exercises 1889-90-91, 1893-94-95, 1899, 1903, 1918.
• Two Notebooks on Botany compiled by Sarah A. Parker, Sargentville, 1903-07.
• Woodblock of the first building of ESNS.
• Souvenir Teacup, “Dormitory, Castine, Maine. Made in Germany for W. A. Ricker, Castine, Me.”
• Postcards.
• Bell Ceremony, July 11, 1987.