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Keywords: Maine General Hospital

Historical Items

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Item 8892

Maine General Hospital patient menu, Portland, 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950 Location: Portland Media: Black and white paper document

Item 8968

Maine General Hospital sewing room, Portland, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 105233

Maine General Hospital in winter, Portland, 1943

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1943-11-24 Location: Portland Media: photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 135766

Maine General Hospital additions and alterations floor plan, Portland, 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Location: Portland Client: Maine Medical Center Architect: Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott

Item 110031

Electric Passenger elevator for Children's Hospital, Portland, 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Item 135759

McGeachey Hall Mental Health Center floor plan, Portland, 1981

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981 Location: Portland Client: Maine Medical Center Architect: Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon

Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.

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Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus

Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.

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Doing Good: Medical Stories of Maine

Throughout Maine’s history, individuals have worked to improve and expand medical care, not only for the health of those living in Maine, but for many around the world who need care and help.

Site Pages

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Mercy Hospital - Portland Hospitals Before Mercy

"Modern hospital care as its understood in the 21st century, is a recent development in medical history."

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"The first patient appeared at Maine General Hospital on September 19, prompting administrators to establish an isolation ward rather than risk…"

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Mercy Hospital - School of Nursing - Page 1 of 3

"… 1944Northern Light Mercy Hospital The Queen's Hospital Training School for Nurses Soon after Queen’s Hospital (future Mercy) opened, it responded…"

My Maine Stories

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A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down

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My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima

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2020 Sheltering in Place Random Notes During COVID-19
by Phyllis Merriam, LCSW

Sheltering-in-Place personal experiences in mid-coast Maine (Rockland) during March and April 2020