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Item 9092
Looking Northerly on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan, ca. 1898
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1898 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 149931
Canoe on flooded street, Farmington, 1923
Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1923 Location: Farmington Media: Photographic print
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.
