"Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum."

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32334820

Description

Title: "Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum."
Creator: From the Collection: Hansen, Bert, 1944-
Contributor: From the Collection: Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896
From the Collection: Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
From the Collection: Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894
From the Collection: Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902
From the Collection: Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
From the Collection: Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931
From the Collection: Wales, James Albert, 1852-1886
From the Collection: Zimmerman, Eugene, 1862-1935
Published / Created: 1866 February
Description: Harper's Monthly (32:189), page 273-294. Article by W. H. Davenport. Procedure and stories of various inmates with 19 engravings such as "The Asylum, Receiving patients, The examination, The Office and Druggery, The doctors' morning round, Paddy, Mrs. Buchanan, The Preacher." Hansen database #252.
Provenance: Gift of Bert Hansen in multiple accessions between 2015 and 2017.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

Call Number

Ms Coll 67

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Container / Volume

Box 14, folder 1

Access: Public
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Citation: Bert Hansen Collection of Medicine and Public Health in Popular Graphic Art. Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.