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Eastern State Hospital for the Insane Photograph
Collection
Identifier: MS-3881
Abstract
This collection features a single, mounted black and white photograph of 6 female patients and 15 female nurses from the Eastern State Hospital for the Insane dating circa 1915.
Dates:
circa 1915
Patricia Cornwell Collection of 19th Century Popular Culture
Collection
Identifier: MS-3823
Abstract
This collection consists of materials author Patricia Cornwell collected as part of her extensive research for her publications. The collection primarily contains notebooks, pamphlets, and newspaper articles about the history and culture of 18th and 19th-century medicine and crime. Additionally, there are primary source documents about the abolitionist movement, suffragettes, Prince Albert Victor, and other 19th-century celebrities, education, and literature.
Dates:
1715-1976; Majority of material found within 1818-1915