Nutting Memorial Library is the primary repository for documents, photographs and other media relating to the history of Maine Maritime Academy.  We also have some materials from the Eastern State Normal School.  These pages present a selection of images from the Library Archives.               

MMA--The  1940s

First Class officers—11/41?
 

Midshipmen march to training ship for winter cruise, 1946-47.
 

Marlinspike class, 1943 (2nd Class).
 

Cdr. Arthur S. Fairley and his math class—late 1940s.
 

“Sparks” Haynes of the American Seaman, 12/6/45, enroute to Jacksonville, Fl.
                             from Castine, Me.
 

Staff and Faculty—1942.
 

M.M.A. basketball team, 1946.
 

Communications class, 1943.
 

Painting--San Juan, Puerto Rico, 12/23/45.
 

Sea Street, 1945.
 

Graduation, 1945.

Gardiner Gregory, Castine resident and one-time MMA instructor, baseball coach and "official photographer," donated his large collection of Academy photographs to MMA.  He also gave the college the equipment still in use in the Library darkroom.  Below is a small selection of views, scanned from slides spanning many years of MMA life.
 

  Drill, 1947.
 

  Tree Climbers, 1969.
 

  4/c in Lifeboats, 1960.
 

  TV State of Maine (Ancon), 1964.
 

  Aerial View of MMA, 1982.
 

  Memorial Day, Castine, 1965.
 

  Engineering Lab, 1983.
 

  Middies, 1965.
 

  Rowing Team, 1966.
 

  Tall Ships Parade, 1976.
 

  Sailing, 1980.
 

  Mugs, 1969.
 

  Lifeboat, 1968.
 

  TV State of Maine (Upshur), 1980.
 

  Winter, 1961.
 

  The "Good News," 1980.
 

  Sailing Champs, 1965.
 

  Ship Jump, 1980.
 

The Eastern State Normal School was established in Castine in 1867 as part of a statewide system of teachers colleges.  The building now known as Dismukes Hall on the MMA campus was built in 1872 and housed classrooms and offices.  Richardson Hall (Leavitt Hall) was built in 1900 as a dormitory and dining facility, and the present Quick Hall, constructed in 1928, was the school’s gymnasium and auditorium.

Maine Maritime Academy shared classroom facilities with ESNS from its founding (as the Maine Nautical Training School) in the fall of 1941 until the Normal School closed in the spring of 1942.  At that time MMA moved into its permanent home.
 

  View from Fort George—late 19th cent.
 

  Normal School—Castine, Maine.
 

  School Building—ESNS—built 1872.
 

  Assembly--ESNS.
 

  Football Team—ESNS, 1901.
 

  Astronomy Class—ESNS.
 

  Laboratory--ESNS.
    

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