In 2019, Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library acquired The New York Bloomingdale Insane Asylum records, 1880-1910, comprising eight ledgers divided into three series: Admission records that ...

Admissions records typically provide basic details about a patient, including their occupation, age, religion, suspected cause of mental illness, and the events that led them to the asylum.

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Trump sounds like an insane asylum patient, adversary says. Updated: Feb. 11, ... “Twice, I was fortunate to work in insane asylums, so I had an opportunity to be immersed in it.

After the hospital closed, an employee found 400 suitcases in the attic of the asylum, dating from 1910 to 1960. Their contents along with institutional records and doctors’ notes from patient ...

From the outside, the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland, which opened in Crownsville, Md., in 1911, looked like a farm, with patients harvesting tobacco, constructing gardens and working ...

Origins of the Insane Asylum. Historical records indicate that the asylum was established in the early 19th century, a period ...

Usually the mention of an old, closed-down insane asylum brings to mind images of inhumanely treated patients, ghosts and bad TV. When it comes to the Hastings State Hospital, however, the Dakota ...

BOONE, Iowa, Jan. 24. -- The building on the Boone County poor farm used as an insane asylum was burned down last night and eight of the nine inmates lost their lives.

OUT OF AN INSANE ASYLUM.; A RELEASED PATIENT'S REMARKABLE STORY OF CRUEL TREATMENT. Share full article. ... He was sent by his family to the Dixmont Insane Asylum, at Pittsburg.

Niesje Steinkruger is one of many dedicated volunteers who has been searching for “Lost Alaskans” sent to an insane asylum in Portland, Ore. from the late 1800s to 1960.