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  • Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a psychiatric patient enjoys drinking a morning cup of coffee in the bathroom. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

    • Wilder, Dudley Raymond, 1916-1957.
    Date
    [1954?]
    Reference
    2046874i
    • Pictures
  • The lives they left behind : suitcases from a state hospital attic / Darby Penney and Peter Stastny ; with photographs by Lisa Rinzler.

    • Penney, Darby.
    Date
    2008
    • Books
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.

    Date
    1885-1898
    Reference
    530710i
    • Pictures
  • Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by A. Birrell, 1813, after T. Stothard, 1783, after C. Cibber, 1680.

    • Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700.
    Date
    2 January 1813
    Reference
    25638i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: a female dormitory. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly after F. Palmer, 1860.

    • Palmer, F., active 1860.
    Date
    1860
    Reference
    39264i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a staff member offers a cigarette to a patient. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

    • Wilder, Dudley Raymond, 1916-1957.
    Date
    [1954?]
    Reference
    2046871i
    • Pictures
  • Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: Bruno, a psychiatric patient, repeatedly wets his face from the urinal and resents people watching him. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

    • Wilder, Dudley Raymond, 1916-1957.
    Date
    [1954?]
    Reference
    2046877i
    • Pictures
  • Patients in a mental hospital in the Soviet Union. Photograph, 197- (?).

    Date
    [between 1970 and 1979?]
    Reference
    2141806i
    • Pictures
  • Glenside Hospital, Bristol: a young man in bed in a dormitory. Drawing by D.W. Reed.

    • Reed, Denis William, 1917-1979.
    Date
    [1960?]
    Reference
    727112i
    • Pictures
  • Takin' over the asylum / Donna Franceschild.

    • Franceschild, Donna
    Date
    2013
    • Books
  • Blue/orange / Joe Penhall.

    • Penhall, Joe.
    Date
    2001
    • Books
  • The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the billiard room. Wood engraving by F. Vizetelly, 1860.

    • Vizetelly, Frederick, active 1860.
    Date
    1860
    Reference
    39258i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Glenside Hospital, Bristol: male patients in a dayroom. Drawing by D.W. Reed.

    • Reed, Denis William, 1917-1979.
    Date
    [1960?]
    Reference
    727118i
    • Pictures
  • Salomon de Caus incarcerated in the mental asylum of Bicêtre. Lithograph by Lafosse after J.J. Lecurieux, 1845.

    • Lecurieux, Jacques Joseph, 1801-1867.
    Date
    [1845?]
    Reference
    658172i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Being different : the autobiography of Jane Fry / collected, compiled, and edited, with an introduction and conclusion by Robert Bogdan.

    • Fry, Jane, 1945-
    Date
    [1974], ©1974
    • Books
  • Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a psychiatric patient finds a worm coming out of his food. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

    • Wilder, Dudley Raymond, 1916-1957.
    Date
    [1954?]
    Reference
    2046878i
    • Pictures
  • Glenside Hospital, Bristol: patients having their hair cut. Drawing by D.W. Reed.

    • Reed, Denis William, 1917-1979.
    Date
    [1960?]
    Reference
    726072i
    • Pictures
  • Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: Kelly, a psychiatric patient, voices his delusions about what he is going to do on his birthday. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

    • Wilder, Dudley Raymond, 1916-1957.
    Date
    [1954?]
    Reference
    2046879i
    • Pictures
  • Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a psychiatric patient mopping the floor as therapy. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

    • Wilder, Dudley Raymond, 1916-1957.
    Date
    [1954?]
    Reference
    2046868i
    • Pictures
  • Psychiatric patients and psychiatrists. Etchings by Gemma Anderson, 2009-2010.

    • Anderson, Gemma, 1981-
    Date
    [2010]
    Reference
    727140i
    • Pictures
  • A room in an attic, in which a chained snake stands at a locked door. Watercolour by D. Marsden, 1952.

    • Marsden, D., active approximately 1951-1953.
    Date
    1952
    Reference
    3001105i
    Part of
    Adamson Collection
    • Pictures
  • Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a clinical consultation among doctors at which the patient is not allowed to say anything. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

    • Wilder, Dudley Raymond, 1916-1957.
    Date
    [1954?]
    Reference
    2046873i
    • Pictures
  • Friern Hospital, Friern Barnet: patients. Photographs, 1890-1910.

    Date
    [1890?-1910]
    Reference
    17421i
    • Pictures
  • Above, a brown snake bound in red chains, in darkness; below, a snake chained to a ball, representing a patient, with three small snakes representing hospital staff. Watercolour by D. Marsden, 1952.

    • Marsden, D., active approximately 1951-1953.
    Date
    1952
    Reference
    3001104i
    Part of
    Adamson Collection
    • Pictures
  • Patton State Hospital, San Bernardino, California: a psychiatric patient tries to escape. Drawing by D.R. Wilder, ca. 1954.

    • Wilder, Dudley Raymond, 1916-1957.
    Date
    [1954?]
    Reference
    2046872i
    • Pictures
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