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An appeal to the people of Pennsylvania : on the subject of an asylum for the insane poor of the Commonwealth.
Philadelphia (Pa.). Committee on an Asylum for the Insane Poor of Pennsylvania.Date: 1838
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Emanuel Hospital, Tothill Fields, Westminster. Process print, c.1893, after a drawing by H. Railton.
Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910.Reference: 39643i
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Coloured engraving.
Date: 1750Reference: 20384i
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The Hospital of St. Peter, Wandsworth: the north facade and lawn. Coloured lithograph, 1849.
Date: 1849Reference: 39597i
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Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Engraving, 1834.
Date: 1834Reference: 20168i
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Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, Surrey: aerial view showing the new male wing. Photolithograph, 1906.
Date: 29 September 1906Reference: 25291i
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: view of the Pensioners cheering and waving their hats and sticks, at a King Charles's Day Parade. Wood engraving.
Date: 1855Reference: 20759i
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Secrets from the asylum. [2/2].
Date: 2014
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the north side, looking east. Aquatint by G. Hughes.
Date: 1829Reference: 20388i
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: a lamp-post and a gate-post finial. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1845.
Laing, C. D. (Charles D.), active 1838-1853.Date: 1845Reference: 20607i
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The Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum, Dalston, London. Coloured lithograph by Francis and Jackson.
Reference: 24177i
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Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water: panoramic view. Wood engraving.
Reference: 23018i
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Code of rules and regulations for the government of those employed in the care of the patients of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane : at Philadelphia / by Thomas S. Kirkbride.
Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.Date: 1878
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The present condition of Tewksbury.
Leonard, Clara T.Date: 1833
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Plain talk about insanity : its causes, forms, symptoms, and the treatment of mental diseases. With remarks on hospitals and asylums, and the medico-legal aspect of insanity / By T. W. Fisher.
Fisher, T. W. (Theodore Willis), 1837-Date: 1872
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A pair of Pensioners, seated at a table, playing draughts, with others looking on, inside the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, with a vignette of tricorn hat, wooden leg, clay pipe, drinking glass and medals at lower left. Etching by G. Fox, 1887.
Fox, George, 1851-192?Date: 1887Reference: 20763i
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The mysteries of Bedlam; or, Annals of the madhouse / By a late officer of twenty years' experience.
Date: [1850?]
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Midnight Mission for Fallen Women, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 18496i
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Engraving by J. Storer after S. Prout, 1805.
Prout, Samuel, 1783-1852.Date: 1 February 1805Reference: 20344i
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The London Orphan Asylum, Clapton: seen from the road. Etching.
Reference: 39565i
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Etching by J.S. Storer, 1795, after J.M.W. Turner, 1794.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.Date: 1795Reference: 20382i
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The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth: the facade. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin after B. Sly.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 1857Reference: 39569i
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Practical observations on insanity and the treatment of the insane : addressed particularly to those who have relatives or friends afflicted with mental derangement; also hints on the propriety of making the study of mental disorders a necessary adjunct to medical education / By W. J.
Date: 1828
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National Orphan Home, Ham, Surrey: side view. Lithograph, c. 1856.
Blake, Edward Collier Scott, approximately 1823-1868Date: 1856Reference: 23684i
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Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Philadelphia: panoramic view. Coloured engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1831, after C. Burton.
Burton, Charles, active 19th century.Date: 1 March 1831Reference: 22074i