Clip Description:
Collection contains a factual work on Western Maine Sanatorium in Hebron, Maine.
Tuberculosis patients are shown primarily outdoors, playing games, roughhousing,
acting out skits, and enjoying winter sports. The Fourth of July parade on the
grounds includes a blackface minstrel band. Bedridden patients appear in scenes
filmed on the screen porch of the sanatorium. This material, filmed at one of
four sanatoriums in Maine, records the philosophy of isolating TB patients and
providing a healthy environment to encourage recovery.
Biographical/Historical: The films were found among the possessions of Dr. Lester Adams, longtime director
of the sanatorium, who kept many of the records when the facility closed in
1959.
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