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Historical Items Showing 3 of 572 View All
Item 17375
Title: Mt. Desert Island Hospital
Contributed by: Mt. Desert Island Hospital
Date: circa 1920
Location: Bar Harbor
Media: Photograph Postcard
Item 17304
Title: Harriet Mitchell, Mt. Desert Island Hospital, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Mt. Desert Island Hospital
Date: 1970
Location: Bar Harbor
Media: Photograph
Item 7391
Title: 67th General Hospital War Unit, Portland, 1942
Contributed by: Maine Medical Center Archives
Date: 1942-08-28
Location: Portland
Media: Photograph
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Exhibits Showing 3 of 9 View All
Exhibit
Rebecca Usher, Civil War Nurse
Rebecca Usher of Hollis signed letters that she penned for wounded Civil War soldiers with the saying, "Yours for the Soldier, Rebecca Usher." She was one of 20,000 women who worked in Union military hospitals.
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
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.
