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  • Collection: Disability History and Advocacy

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An educational "yearbook" about the mental hygiene movement and the work of the Texas Society of Mental Hygiene.

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A photo from Sarah Sitton's book, "Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997," which displays the close quarters of patients at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum (now the Austin State Hospital).

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A photo from Sarah Sitton's book, "Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997," which displays the one of the asylum's back wards, designated for patients who misbehaved or were thought to have little chance of improvement.

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A 1975 patient record documenting a patient who was transferred to a San Antonio Mental Hospital after being originally admitted to the Dimmit Memorial Hospital for appendicitis.
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