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This web site is an attempt to catalog and present America's historic psychiatric hospitals (state hospitals; insane asylums) founded mostly in the latter ...
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www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~asylums/mainpage.html
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~asylums/mainpage.html
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Forgotten Photography provides a photographic journey through some of our nation's historical asylums and state hospitals. In the 1800's these elegant asylums and state hospitals were intended to be the first step towards the humane treatment ... A Unique Perspective into the Realm of Historic Asylums and State Hospitals...
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www.forgottenphotography.com/
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Forgotten Photography contains photographs of Historic Insane Asylums and State Hositals ... Henryton Center (aka Henryton State Hospital) was established in 1922 for the care of African-American tuberculosis patients. Sarah A. Collins Fernandis, the first African-American female social worker ... - Maryland State Archives...
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www.forgottenphotography.com/Henryton/index.html
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www.historicasylums.com/
www.historicasylums.com/
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Pictures and history of 19th century insane asylums built according to a plan conceived by Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a physician who believed good architecture could help cure mental illness. ... Placed in secluded areas within expansive grounds, many of these insane asylums seemed almost palace-like from the outside.
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www.kirkbridebuildings.com/
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There are Kirkbride buildings throughout the United States and in a few other countries. Most were built between 1848 and 1890, although there were a few instances where Kirkbride buildings were built after 1900. Each building followed the same basic floor plan and general arrangement of ... Athens State Hospital...
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www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/index.html
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Historic asylums state hospitals Kirkbride buildings and related subjects ... The time now is Dec 15, 2009 02:36; Historic Asylums Forum Index ... Historic Asylums; Your site description here;
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historicasylums.phpbbnow.com/
historicasylums.phpbbnow.com/
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Please click on the thumbnail images below to see historic postcards. The last image is of Marcy State Hospital, a different facility located 10 miles away. ... The following text, provided by Mark Harf, a native of Utica, New York, is courtesy of the Greater Utica Landmarks Society, June 11, 1981 and an exhibit which was...
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www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/utica_ny/
www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/utica_ny/
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Historic Asylums of America - A catalog of America's 19th century psychiatric hospitals, with a focus on those built on Thomas Kirkbride's architectural plan. Also includes information about which asylums are now open to the public.
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asylum.dismalaesthetics.com/
asylum.dismalaesthetics.com/
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