Courtesy of David Sanderson, an individual partner
Description
Women staff, or possibly patients, at the Maine State Sanatorium in Hebron are dressed in protective jumpsuits.
The nurses at the tuberculosis-treatment facility generally worse standard nurses' uniforms and patients wore either sleepwear or street clothes. The protective jumpsuits may have been worn by nurses or other staff when cleaning the rooms and labs at the facility.
About This Item
- Title: Sanatorium 'outfits,' Hebron, ca. 1914
- Creation Date: circa 1914
- Subject Date: circa 1914
- Location: Hebron, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Western Maine Sanatorium
- Maine State Sanatorium
- Health care personnel
- Hospitals, convalescent--Maine--Hebron
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Sanatoriums--Maine
- Tuberculosis--Maine
- Tuberculosis hospitals--Maine
- Uniforms
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