Category: Social Movements & Services, Social services, Sanatoriums
Item 9082
Elm Street, Skowhegan, ca. 1868
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1868 Location: Skowhegan Media: Stereograph
Item 16427
Mr. and Mrs. Bayard T. Stanley, Kingfield, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Kingfield Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
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.
Story
Born in Bangor 1936
by Priscilla M. Naile
Spending time at the Bangor Children's Home