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Texas Women’s Literary Tradition: A Conference and Celebration – 1984 – Melissa Hield was invited to give the opening remarks, based on her role as the Historian for the Texas Women’s History Project (1981). Co-sponsored by The College of Liberal…

PHIT – Rockdale Reporter newsclip – 1985: For “Texas Writers” (1986), PHIT was in Rockdale interviewing several local people for a documentary about George Sessions Perry. Melissa Hield is on the far left.

PHIT documentary shoot for “Texas Writers” – 1985: For the project “Texas Writers” (1986) this photo is the group that was shooting background footage in Central Texas. Melissa Hield is on the far right. PHIT shot and edited the video under the…

A picture of a young woman taken without her knowledge

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.

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.

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).

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

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.