Sweetser Children’s Home records
Scope and Content note
Records include minutes of monthly, special and annual meetings, rules and regulations of the home, copies of the constitution and by-laws, the indenture of Hannah A. Devine, and other miscellaneous items.
Dates
- Creation: 1828 - 1947
Creator
- Sweetser-Children's Home (Saco, Me.) (Organization)
Access
Unrestricted
Copyright
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Administrative note
Sweetser’s roots in residential care for children date back to 1828. The Sweetser we know today evolved from the joining of four Maine orphanages: The Children’s Home of Portland (formerly the Female Orphan Asylum), the Belfast-based Children’s Aid Society of Maine, Maine Home for Boys (formerly the Little Samaritan Society) in Portland, and the original Sweetser Home for Boys in Saco.
Source: Story of Sweetser page, Sweetser website
Extent
10 Volumes (+ 1 envelope)
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Gift of Frances Peabody, May 2, 1966 (acc. no. MS00-46).
Processing note
This is a copy of the typed finding aid in the file.
Source
- Peabody, Frances W. (Donor, Person)
Subject
- Peabody family (Family)
- Victoria Mansion (Organization)
- Tate House (Portland, Me.) (Organization)
- E.E. Taylor Shoe Co (Organization)
- Jones Museum of Glass & Ceramics (Sebago, Me.) (Organization)
- Greater Portland Landmarks, Inc (Organization)
- National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Maine (Organization)
Geographic
- Portland (Me.) -- Biography
- Portland (Me.) -- Genealogy
- Stroudwater (Portland, Me.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
- Stroudwater (Portland, Me.) -- History
Topical
- AIDS (Disease) -- Maine -- Portland
- AIDS activists -- Maine -- Portland
- Group homes for children -- Maine -- Saco
- HIV/AIDs
- Historic buildings -- Maine -- Portland
- Historic preservation -- Maine -- Portland
- Hospice care -- Maine -- Portland
- Museums -- Maine -- Sebago
- Orphans -- Maine -- Saco
- Philanthropists -- Maine -- Portland
- STDs
- Shoe industry -- Maine -- Portland
- Women civic leaders -- Maine -- Portland
- Women philanthropists -- Maine -- Portland
- Title
- Guide to the Sweetser Children’s Home records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Donna Knoblock, Library Volunteer, June 2025
- Date
- June 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Historical Society Repository