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Box 1

 Container

Contains 57 Results:

Department of Mental Hygiene, 1983 Request Item

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, Articles, Transcript of Tapes 11-12 (Box 7)

Dates: 1983

History of Willard Asylum for the Insane and the Willard State Hospital, 1978 Request Item

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 50
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Audio recordings and transcriptions of interviews David Birnbach conducted with former staff of New York State mental hospitals including Willard, Gowanda, St. Lawrence, Rochester, Sunmount, Pilgrim, and Rockland in 1983 and 1984. The interviews from Gowanda were the most comprehensive. Also particularly important are interviews from St. Lawrence, the first state hospital in the nation to open all its locked wards, and Rochester with its focus on leadership and integration in an urban...
Dates: 1978