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Photo from 'A Happy Christmas Party at the Crippled Children's School, Canton, Ohio, 1922'

Excerpts from MIGHT's 1980 accessibility guide for the University of Texas at Austin. Includes services for students with disabilities, as well as a map of potential accessibility barriers on campus.

A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times newspaper article about the reforms Kansas implemented to prevent patients from being committed to life in a state mental hospital. It advocates for bringing these reforms to the system in Texas. Part of a series of…

A 1956 Amarillo Globe-Times Article about the rehabilitation of a child at the Children's Unit at Topeka Hospital. Advocates for a similar unit in Texas mental hospitals and for a focus on rehabilitation instead of life in an institution. Part of a…

American Federation for the Physically Handicapped's President Paul Strachan outlines his proposals for an inter-departmental committee on selective job placement of the handicapped, and for a one-year pilot program in Pennsylvania leading to a…

Cover of 1851 pamphlet titled: Astounding Disclosures! Three Years In A Mad House, by Isaac H. Hunt

Cover of a program for the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities 20th Delegate Assembly in Houston, TX, in 1998.

A 1956 Amarillo Globe Times newspaper article against the Texas jury trial law to determine if someone needs institutional care for mental illness. In favor of implementing a similar law to the Kansas law that separates groups of mentally ill…

A patient record illustrating the use of chemotherapy as a treatment for a schizophrenia.

The record of a patient admitted to a Texas mental hospital. It certifies from the doctor that the institutionalization of this patient is recommended.