Keywords: cholera
Item 9531
Letter from Samuel Gilman to his wife, Sept. 2, 1849
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1849-09-02 Location: Bangor; Bangor; Bangor Media: Ink on paper
Item 108659
Hospital Island, Westport Island, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1908 Location: Westport Island; Edgecomb Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 278-361
"… Approximately 1849-1850 Martin described the cholera epidemic of 1849, and, in great detail, the life of his brother, Alonzo Raynes, including his…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Healthcare Center of Eastern and Central Maine - Page 1 of 2
"… diseases would be smallpox, yellow fever, and cholera. The hospital staff did their best to cure as many patients as possible, this led to even…"
Story
Vegetarians and Zoonosis
by Avery Yale Kamila
Colds, influenza, tuberculosis, measles, smallpox, plague and COVID-19 group under zoonotic diseases
