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Item 148498

Ken MacKenzie Show, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 148496

Hal Lone Pine on horse, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Media: Photographic print
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Item 148461

The Lone Pine Mountaineers, Bangor, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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San Life: the Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928-1929

Merle Wadleigh of Portland, who was in his mid 20s, took and saved photographs that provide a glimpse into the life of a tuberculosis patient at the Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron in 1928-1929.

Exhibit

Mary King Scrimgeour dress, Lewiston, ca. 1895

Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In

Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.

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.

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"… truck, laden with dresses and other feminine wear for the ladies. (Sometimes the dress of choice would be selected, only to find the belt missing…"