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Description

The first 100-bed hospital of the Togus Veterans Administration Facility was completed in 1870 and replaced in 1891. In the 1930s, the new medical center director Malcolm Stoddard oversaw a building campaign to modernize Togus that included a General Medical & Surgical Hospital in the northern section of the campus with up-to-date technology. The groundbreaking for the new 250-bed hospital took place on May 12, 1932, and construction was completed the following year. The new building stood on the site of a former deer park that had been built to amuse residents.

The caption reads, "Hospital, Veterans Administration Facility, Togus, Maine."

The Tichnor Brothers printing company published this type of postcard circa 1938.

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About This Item

• Title: Veterans Administration Facility Hospital, Togus, ca. 1938
• Creator: Tichnor Bros., Inc.
• Creation Date: circa 1938
• Subject Date: circa 1938
• Location: Chelsea, Kennebec County, ME
• Media: Linen texture postcard
• Dimensions: 9 cm x 14 cm
• Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
• Object Type: Text and Image

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Cross Reference Searches

Standardized Subject Headings

• Military hospitals--Maine--Togus
• National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Eastern Branch
• Postcards
• VA Medical Center (Togus, Me.)
• Veterans--Medical care--Maine

People

• Stoddard, Malcolm

Other Keywords

• Hospitals
• Military facilities
• Postcards
• Postcards--Maine
• Veterans

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