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Item 25651
Title: Barns, Valley Farm, New Gloucester, ca. 1937
Contributed by: New Gloucester Historical Society
Date: circa 1937
Location: New Gloucester
Media: Photograph
Item 54669
Title: Good Will Farm, Fairfield, ca. 1940
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes
Date: circa 1940
Location: Fairfield
Media: Photographic print
Item 20664
Title: Stairs-Beckwith Farm, Presque Isle, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society
Date: circa 1950
Location: Presque Isle
Media: Photograph
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Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England, University Press of New England, 1984.)
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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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In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.