Keywords: Stretcher
Item 148822
The crew of the "Sunbeam" assisting in patient transfer, ca. 1945
Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: circa 1945 Media: Photographic print
Item 6638
Stocking stretcher/dryer, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Wood
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.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades
"He invented a tire hook chain, a rim stretcher and a temple joint for eyeglasses. That is how W.A. Brown was a part of Lincoln, Maine and what he did…"
Site Page
Guilford, Maine - Veterans Tributes - Page 1 of 2
"… by enemy machine gun fire from advancing with stretcher bearers, he daringly maneuvered six of his men forward and, in the face of withering…"
Story
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.
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
