Keywords: Fresh Air Fund
Item 108790
Rosemary Cottage, Eliot, ca. 1888
Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1888 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print
Item 6190
Rosemary Cottage, Eliot, ca. 1888
Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1888 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
World War I and the Maine Experience
With a long history of patriotism and service, Maine experienced the war in a truly distinct way. Its individual experiences tell the story of not only what it means to be an American, but what it means to be from Maine during the war to end all wars.
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School
"… professed to provide a sound education in the fresh air of Maine. Over the years, the school’s administration changed frequently."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell
"… pipes; in the winter one needed to fetch fresh water by taking buckets down to the brook next to the house and there was a nearby outhouse used in…"
