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Item 103862

The Scow Vixen loaded with waste for disposal near Ram Island, Portland, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925-07-27 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 100164

"The Old Dump," Portland, 1919

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1919 Location: Portland Media: Watercolor on paper, wood, glass

Item 148239

Scow off breakwater, South Portland, 1887

Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-09-01 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"… men." Privies served as repositories for human waste and as receptacles (or trashcans) for the daily waste generated in a household such as broken…"

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Forest Paper Co. workers, Yarmouth, ca. 1890

Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.

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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.