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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 6
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Mental illness 12
Physicians 3
Psychiatric hospitals 3
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Albert Barnitz papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1294
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence, diaries, military papers, and other material documenting the military career of Albert Barnitz and Barnitz family life. The papers concern such subjects as cavalry operations, military life, relations between parents and children, and child rearing practices.

Dates: 1852-1978

George Miller Beard papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 584
Abstract:

Correspondence, writings, biographical material and other papers of George M. Beard, physician and specialist in the treatment of mental and nervous disorders. Included are materials relating to his work on the medical uses of electricity and his pioneering work in the definition of criminal insanity, as well as papers relating to his interest in spiritualism. Also included are a number of letters received by his daughter, Grace Alden Beard, related to a biographical study of her father.

Dates: 1853-1923

George Alder Blumer correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 50
Abstract:

These letters to George Alder Blumer are mainly about the American Medico-Psychological Association and the American Journal of Insanity, edited by Blumer. Several of the writers were, like Blumer, administrators of psychiatric hospitals in the United States and abroad.

Dates: 1886-1951, bulk 1886-1896

Robert Bogdan Disability Collection

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 61
Abstract:

The collection contains real photo postcards, commercial postcards, photographs, pamphlets and ephemera related to people with disabilities, mostly from the United States, collected by Professor Robert Bogdan, a pioneer in the teaching of disability studies.

Dates: 1820s-1990s, 1900-1940

Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene records

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Call Number: MS 1904
Abstract:

The records consist of reports, meeting minutes, organizational files, and printed material documenting the founding and work of the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene.

Dates: 1908-1958

Kenneth Donaldson papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1677
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, hospital records, and publicity materials. They document Kenneth Donaldson's years as a patient at the Florida State Hospital, his efforts to obtain his release from the hospital, and the media coverage of him after his release and of his victory in the Supreme Court. Correspondence includes Donaldson's communication with friends, legal advisors, and medical staff.

Dates: 1943-1982

Ruth Pine Furniss papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 431
Abstract: The Papers contain writings and other papers of American author Ruth Pine Furniss. Furniss's writings drew on her struggle with mental illness and her exposure to various medical treatments. Her career as an author is documented in various material, including drafts, printed versions of her writings, contracts with publishers, and copyright records. Some of her poetry, short stories, and articles written in the 1920s, and largely published in magazines and newspapers, are in a scrapbook of...
Dates: 1919-1960

Malick family papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-1298
Abstract:

The papers contain letters written by family members in Washington Territory to Mary Ann Malick Albright.

Dates: 1848-1869

Miscellaneous letters collection

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Call Number: Ms Coll 49
Abstract:

Miscellaneous Letters Collection is a collection of hundreds of individual letters or small groups of letters, mostly by physicians and scientists, either donated to the Historical Library or purchased.

Dates: 1649-1961

Louise Morgan and Otto Theis papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 80
Abstract:

The papers document the literary and personal lives of Morgan and Theis, and contain correspondence, subject files, and professional papers related to the 20th century British literary world. There is correspondence regarding Evelyn Scott, and correspondence as well as poems by Nancy Cunard.

Dates: 1903-1983, bulk 1930-1960

Joseph Ritson collection

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Call Number: GEN MSS 76
Abstract:

The collection contains works by and about Ritson, a small quantity of correspondence, and the manuscript of the Bibliographia Scotica.

Dates: 1782-1824

Sheet music collection on medical themes

 Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 5
Abstract:

Sheet music on medical themes including songs and piano compositions about medical providers, ailments, remedies, health for children, and advertisements for medical products. Much of the music was performed in music halls or as part of musicals, or later, performed on radio, television, and on records.

Dates: ca. 1762-1989, bulk 1890-1940

George W. Wilbur family papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-1611
Abstract:

The George W. Wilbur Family Papers consist of correspondence, case files, financial papers, notebooks, documents, writings, diaries, maps, photographs, and printed material which document the life of George W. Wilbur and his family.

Dates: 1737-1954, bulk 1870-1931

James Lockwood Wright papers

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Call Number: MS 1078
Abstract: The papers consist of eleven volumes of a journal kept by Wright from his first years at Yale College in 1828. While there he reports on a lecture by Elias Boudinot on behalf of the Cherokee nation and various temperance and abolition activities. The journals are chiefly devoted to religious meditations and describe the various revival movements of his era and his evangelical work with black residents of New Haven. He also records various aspects of his personal life including five mental...
Dates: 1828-1858

Yale Child Study Center reference collection

 Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 11
Abstract: The collection consists of approximately 3,800 short published works on topics related to child welfare used by Arnold Gesell and the staff of the Yale Child Study Center as a reference collection. Topics include children and the war, day care centers (day nurseries), education, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, intellectual disability (mental deficiency), mental health (mental hygiene), mental illness (insanity), nurseries, and nutrition. A portion of collection materials document...
Dates: 1886-1958