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Early photographic portrait of Dorothea Dix, posed seated, in an oval frame.
A man is sitting on a straw bed in a prison; he is wearing a shoulder harness which is chained to the wall behind him.
A powerfully built, angry looking man is sitting on the floor, arms folded and knees are drawn up close, his head is turned to the left; his wrists and ankles are in irons which are chained to the wall
Illustration of Elizabeth Packard being taken to a mental institution against her will, carried by two men onto an awaiting train with many male and female onlookers
A young man on the left and a young woman on the right in formal, late 19th-century attire looking directly into the camera.

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A young man on the left and a young woman on the right in formal, late 19th-century attire looking directly into the camera.

Asylum Inmates

A photograph by Joseph Parrish of inmates at the Imbecile Asylum, Burlington, N.J., approximately 1886.

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