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  • A retired habitation : a history of the Retreat, York (mental hospital) / by Harold Capper Hunt ; with a foreword by Bedford Pierce and a chapter by N. Macleod.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: women patients (mentally ill?) having a meal in a ward, with three nurses. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a female patient (criminal insane?) in a cell with barred windows. Photograph.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Matthew Barwick. Drawing by T. Hennell, ca. 1935.
  • Part of Claybury Mental Hospital seen from the grounds. Drawing by T. Hennell, ca. 1935.
  • A tempestuous sea with a man chasing a boat.
  • A cross amidst trees and flames
  • A man hurtles to earth where strange beasts roam and a man's half-devoured skeleton lies.