Maine Memory Network

Isles of Shoals map, 1889

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Maine; New Hampshire Media: Ink on paper

Letter seeking TB treatment, 1909

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1909-03-16 Location: Irishtown, NB, Canada Media: Pencil on paper

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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.

CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.