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Description
A group of residents on the grounds of Pownal State School, near Hedin Hospital.
The photo, taken in about 1937, was in an album created by Myrtle Daly (later Myrtle Strout), who was a nurse at the state-operated facility in New Gloucester.
About This Item
- Title: Residents, Pownal State School, ca. 1937
- Creator: Myrtle Daly
- Creation Date: circa 1937
- Subject Date: circa 1937
- Location: New Gloucester, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Group portraits
- Mental institutions--Maine--New Gloucester
- Pineland Farms, Inc. (New Gloucester, Me.)
- Mentally ill children
- Pineland Center (New Gloucester, Me.)
- Pineland Hospital and Training Center (New Gloucester, Me.)
- Hospitals--Maine--New Gloucester
- People with disabilities
People
Other Keywords
- Maine School for the Feeble-Minded (1908-1925)
- Pineland Center (1973-1996)
- Pineland Hospital and Training Center (1957-1973)
- Pownal State School (1925-1957)
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New Gloucester Historical SocietyPO Box 531, New Gloucester, ME 04260
(207) 926-3260
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