Keywords: Incinerators
Item 103619
Furnace used in Mitchell case, Portland, 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1930-07-14 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 103617
James M. Mitchell arraignment, Portland, 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1930-07-14 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 151055
Mrs. Charles A. Plummer residence, Cape Elizabeth, 1925-1926
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1925–1926 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Mrs. Charles A. Plummer Architect: John P. Thomas
Item 151069
Additions and alterations to house for Mrs. A.M. Lothrop, Belfast, 1933
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1933 Location: Belfast Client: A. M. Lothrop Architect: John P. Thomas
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.
Exhibit
One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.
Site Page
"A controversial trash incinerator in the heart of downtown, divisive politics, and an effort by the residents of the beach neighborhoods to separate…"
Site Page
Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2
"… her on the head with a metal pipe and then incinerating her body. The furnace was located in the basement of Loring, Short & Harmon stationary…"
Story
Tammy Ackerman: Falling in love with Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Someone "from away" who fell in love with Biddeford and contributed to its transformation
