Keywords: thermometer
Item 80358
Thermometer and calendar, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Friendship Media: Metal and cardboard
Item 135778
Front Entry, Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print
Exhibit
Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.
Exhibit
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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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes
"Burden collection This device displayed in the exhibit was a thermometer in a wooden case. It was used in the Prohibition wine cellar of Bath's…"
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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents
"X A Moral and Physical Thermometer From An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Mind and Body, Boston, 1790 Dr."
