Keywords: Pasteurization
Item 79722
Maine Baking Company, Auburn, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1940 Location: Auburn Media: Photographic print
Item 8229
Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: 1892 Media: Photographic print
Item 82787
26 Walnut Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Willard O. Putnam Use: Pasteurizing House
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.
