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Description
A July 4 parade with elaborate floats and a variety of costumed participants was a tradition at the Western Maine Sanatorium at Hebron.
Patients who were well enough could participate in the parade and games and other events that followed. Others watched from the sleeping porches at their cottages.
About This Item
- Title: July 4 parade, Western Maine Sanatorium, 1929
- Creator: Merle G. Wadleigh
- Creation Date: 1929-07-04
- Subject Date: 1929-07-04
- Location: Greenwood Mountain, Hebron, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 6 cm x 10.3 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 2111, vol. 2
- Collection: Madeline S. Brown Wadleigh photograph albums
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Fourth of July celebrations--Maine--Hebron
- Hospitals, convalescent--Maine--Hebron
- Invalids
- Parades & processions--Maine--Hebron
- Sanatoriums--Maine
- Sick persons
- Tuberculosis hospitals--Maine
- Tuberculosis--Maine
- Western Maine Sanatorium
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