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Item 149986

Letter to Susan Hill from Lizzie Borden, Fall River, 1878

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1878-07-26 Location: Fall River Media: Ink on paper
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Item 1153

A Doctor's Arrival, ca. 1855

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Item 14180

John H. Allen, Portland, 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1885 Location: Portland; Berlin Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Student Exhibit: Medicine in Times Past

Inspired by Dr. Greenleaf Wilbur's medical box at the Skowhegan History House, this exhibit highlights some Mainers in the medical field of the past and the stories they had.

Exhibit

"Chops and Tomato Sauce" as prepared for Samuel Pickwick, ca. 1890

Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes

Sugar and Spice: Our Vintage Recipes showcases historic recipes, dating from the 18th century to the 1950s, like sweet treats, traditional favorites, promotional printings, medicinal concoctions, curious libations, and recipes that have fallen out of favor.

Exhibit

Cottage for women, Maine State Sanatorium, Hebron, ca. 1909

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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Scholar's Report Book cover, Surry, 1937 - 1938

Surry by the Bay - Surry Village School

"… accompanied by a tin cup, soothed the pupils' throats. By the 1920s a water cooler with a spigot assured the school remained modern and pupils…"