{"id":338,"date":"2019-07-24T19:52:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/university-history\/?page_id=338"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:00:31","slug":"westbrook-college-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/university-history\/university-history\/westbrook-college-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Westbrook College History Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Documents and preserves the history of Westbrook Seminary (1831-1925), Westbrook Seminary &amp; Junior College (1925-1933), Westbrook Junior College (1933-1970), Westbrook College (1970-1996), and the Portland Campus of the University of New England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection includes published and non-published sources, records, documents, personal papers, scrapbooks, memorabilia, photographs, images and artifacts on the founding, development, organization, management and achievements of the institutions that have called the campus home. 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