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Merle Wadleigh, Hebron, 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Location: Hebron Media: Photographic print

Wadleigh family, Hebron, 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929-11-10 Location: Hebron Media: Photographic print

124 Emery Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Agnes M Wadleigh Use: Dwelling - Single family

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.

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.