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Identifier/Call Number
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MS 55
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Description
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Collection of materials related to St. Joseph School, Biddeford, which belonged to Pauline (Gaudette) Canning, SJHS '49. The collection contains images, class photos, clippings, correspondence, programs, albums and certificates. One item not related to SJS is the elementary school diploma from Saco's Burns School belonging to Kenneth Canning.
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Copyright Statement and Conditions governing use
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Reproductions are provided for educational, scholarly, and informational purposes only. Any copyright questions should be directed to the library’s Director.
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Biography, Administrative History and Provenance
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Pauline Canning (1930-2012) was born in Biddeford, the only child of William and Aurore (Morin) Gaudette. She attended St. Joseph Schools in Biddeford, graduating from the high school in 1949. The next year, she married Kenneth Canning of Saco and they had five children. Canning worked inside and outside of the home, volunteered in the community and participated in various clubs and musical performance groups.
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Extent
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1 Box (.4 linear foot) and 1 Folder in Oversize Storage
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Arrangement
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Arranged by material type, as the collection is, for the most part, on a single subject.
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Collection Inventory
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Folder 1
SJHS class of 1949 reunion photographs - 1974-2002. These information single and group portraits and snapshots were located in a vinyl album, which was discarded. The photos were thus removed, numbered in order, and replaced in archival pocket pages, along with any enclosed information (such as reunion number, year, etc.)
1974-2002
Folder 2
Album of Saco parade/Expo 67 (Montreal, QC) - 1967. A paper photoalbum showing, in the first half, a parade which took place in Saco in 1967 and, in the second half, snapshots from the World's Fair, Montreal, QC from that same year.
1967
Folder 3
Photographs (digital prints) 1940-1949. Class portraits (b+w laser prints of scanned versions). Original photographic prints can be found in collection, with the exception of the 8th Grade graduation portrait (1945), and the graduation portrait with graduates in gowns and mortarboards (1949).
1940-1949
Folder 4
Class picture - SJHS Senior class - 1949
1949
Folder 5
Class picture - SJS Grade 6 - 1943
1943
Folder 6
Class picture - SJS Grade 4(?) - 1940-1941
1940-41
Folder 7
Class pictures - SJHS Junior class- 1948
1948
Folder 8
Miscellaneous photographs - 1938-1982. Informal group and individual shots, class groupings. Group pictures of nuns and/or students. Graduation banquet shots and earlier reunion shots. These pictures were loose in the box, although some were in very old plastic album pages; materials found together in an album page were kept together in the archival album pages.
1938-1982
Folder 9
Correspondence, clippings and programs
1949-1974
OS Archives Docs Folder
Certificat d'honneur for study of the "Langue francaise, cours elementaire, a subri avec grande distinction". Issued to "Mademoiselle Pauline Gaudette" on June 15, 1945. Signed by Sister M. de St. Vital, Supre prov-le; and Sister N, de St. Camille de Lellis, Sec-re prov-le. Includes seal of the Congregation des Servants du Coeur Immaculee de Marie.
1945
Diploma issued from Saco Public Schools-Clementine Kendrick Burns School. Issued to Kenneth Howard Canning for graduation from Elementary School, June 8, 1939. Signed by Lewis G. Brock, mayor; Lewis E. Webber, principal; and Harry C. Hull, superintendent. Includes two intact City of Saco gold seals.
1939
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Recommended Citation
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MS 55 Pauline Gaudette Canning Papers. McArthur Library, Biddeford, Maine.
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