LC Subject Heading: Hospitals
Item 108639
Bath City Hospital, Bath, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Bath Media: Glass Plate Negative
Item 51981
Webber Hospital, Biddeford, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Postcard
Item 150791
Basement Heating Plan for Plummer Memorial Hospital, Dexter, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Dexter Client: unknown Architect: Harry S. Coombs
Item 150817
Hospital for the City of Rochester N.H., Rochester, NH, 1922
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922 Location: Rochester Client: City of Rochester Architect: Harry S. Coombs
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: Healthcare History in Maine
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students the opportunity to read and analyze letters, literature, and other primary documents and articles of material culture from the MHS collections relating to how people in Maine have given and received healthcare throughout history. Students will discuss the giving and receiving of medicines and treatments from the 18th-21st centuries, the evolving role of hospitals since the 19th century, and how the nursing profession has changed since the Civil War. Students will also look at how people and healthcare facilities in Maine have addressed epidemics in the past, such as influenza and tuberculosis, and what we can learn today from studying the history of healthcare and medicine.
