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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 5552
Aerial view of Lisbon Falls, 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Lisbon Falls Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
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.
