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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Society Copes

"Burden collection This device displayed in the exhibit was a thermometer in a wooden case. It was used in the Prohibition wine cellar of Bath's…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Influential & Interesting Documents

"X A Moral and Physical Thermometer From An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Mind and Body, Boston, 1790 Dr."

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Front Door, Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

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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.