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Item 6547
Title: Kickapoo medicine show, Fryeburg Fair, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Fryeburg Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Fryeburg
Media: Photoprint
Item 31178
Title: Steeves' Maine Patent Medicine Warehouse, Water Street, Hallowell, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library
Date: circa 1900
Location: Hallowell
Media: Photograph
Item 70491
Title: Mabee Drug paregoric preparation, Lubec, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society
Date: circa 1930
Location: Lubec
Media: Capped glass bottle
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One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.
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Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
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San Life: the Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928-1929
Merle Wadleigh of Portland, who was in his mid 20s, took and saved photographs that provide a glimpse into the life of a tuberculosis patient at the Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron in 1928-1929.
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The history of the smallest city in Maine as created by a team consisting of the Hallowell Area Board of Trade, Hubbard Free Library, The Row House, Vaughan Homestead Foundation, Hallowell Firemen’s Association, and students from Hall-Dale Middle School. Topics covered include: natural disasters, the granite industry and other industries central to the development of the city, firefighters and police, Hallowell’s contribution to modern medicine, the Kennebec River, and more.