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Description
The Mary Brown Home (Portland Invalids' Home) waiting room in the Deering section of Portland.
The facility was a rest home for women recovering from a hospital stay or from exhaustion caused by their employment.
Mary Brown founded founded the home in 1894 and bought a house on Revere Street in 1895, which served as a residence until 1903 when a newer home was built on Capisic Street.
This was later renamed the Eunice Frye Home.
About This Item
- Title: Invalids' Home waiting room, Portland, 1905
- Creator: Leonard Bond Chapman
- Creation Date: 1905
- Subject Date: 1905
- Location: Deering, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Local Code: Coll. 424, Box 7/21; 2008.172.158
- Collection: Leonard Bond Chapman glass plate negatives
- Object Type: Image
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