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Keywords: Medical Camps

Historical Items

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Item 7420

First aid exhibit, Camp Winnebago, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: circa 1950 Location: Fayette Media: Cardboard, paper, glass, plastic

Item 16210

Bangor General Hospital with tent, ca. 1894

Contributed by: Eastern Maine Medical Center Date: circa 1894 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 102495

Members of the Yale Unit Mobile Hospital, France, 1918

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Location: Chaillon Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

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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.

Site Pages

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Eastern Maine Medical Center

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Mercy Hospital - The Spanish Flu

"Medical historians have found that the H1N1 strain of influenza (seen again in 2009) was exceptionally virulent, with death rates among the infected…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… of early and present island life is medical care. In the early days, doctors had to be fetched from the mainland by boat to attend the sick…"

My Maine Stories

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Coaching in Maine and how to become a good coach
by University of New England

Dr. John Winkin speaks at sports medicine lecture, introduced by Dr. Doug Brown

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Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne

Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII

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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