Keywords: first aid
Item 7420
First aid exhibit, Camp Winnebago, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Camp Winnebago Date: circa 1950 Location: Fayette Media: Cardboard, paper, glass, plastic
Item 74852
Electrical first-aid kit, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Media: Glass
Item 148189
Walch Publishing Valley Street alterations first floor plan, Portland, 1983-1987
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1983–1987 Location: Portland Client: J. Weston Walch, Publisher Architect: Wadsworth Boston Mercer & Weatherill
Exhibit
Field & Homefront: Bethel during the Civil War
Like many towns, Bethel responded to the Civil War by sending many soldiers and those at the homefront sent aid and supported families. The town grew during the war, but suffered after its end.
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards
"… and shipped to cities in the south to help aid in refrigeration. Although travel on the Penobscot River remained important to Hampden, an…"
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Caring For Our Families and Friends
"Using its boat Sunbeam, the Mission “aids the (Maine coastal or island) town or plantation in finding and supporting a nurse or physician” including…"
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
Story
Being an NP during social unrest
by Jacqueline P. Fournier
A snapshot of Mainers in a medical crisis of the time/Human experience in Maine.