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Description
Four patients at the Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron are identified in a photo album as, front, from left, Carron and "His Nibs" (Merle Wadleigh) and rear, Gill and Lehman (Arthur Lehman).
Merle Wadleigh of Portland kept the album while he was a patient at the tuberculosis sanatorium. He labeled the photo "The Four Horsemen or Four Aces."
He wrote on the back, "July 1928, The four horsemen, This was taken when I was in Reception. I weighed 140. This is the one that I sent you a piece of before."
About This Item
- Title: Four patients, Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928
- Creation Date: 1928
- Subject Date: 1928
- Location: Greenwood Mountain, Hebron, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 11.6 cm x 7 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2111, vol. 2
- Collection: Madeline S. Brown Wadleigh photograph albums
- Object Type: Image
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- Group portraits
- Hospitals, convalescent--Maine--Hebron
- Invalids
- Maine State Sanatorium
- Sanatoriums--Maine
- Sick persons
- Tuberculosis hospitals--Maine
- Tuberculosis--Maine
- Western Maine Sanatorium
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