Keywords: Hospital stay
Item 14129
Children's Hospital, Portland, 1934
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1934 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 14116
Jo Laffey, Children's Hospital, Portland, 1934
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1934 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus
Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.
Exhibit
Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'
Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.
Site Page
Mercy Hospital - Mercy & the Community
"His mother had nowhere to stay when he was in the hospital, and spent nights sleeping on the hospital floor or in her car."
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Workman's Hospital
"The hospital did not shut down, however. It stayed open until 1966, when the hospital was denied Medicare re-certification."
Story
Peace in Maine
by Rebekah Tower
My story is about my family vacations to Maine when I was growing up.
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
