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MSA SC 5492-1-1
Dates1908-1910 ,2001
Mediumpaper, electronic (online exhibition)
StorageContact the Department of Special Collections for location.
Description
Online exhibition and research notes by MSA curator Robert W. Schoeberlein, Ph.D. relating to The Use and Implications of PHOTOGRAPHS FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE REFORM: The Maryland State Lunacy Commission State Care Campaign, 1908-1910. Images helped to prompt the movement of the mentally ill out of county almshouses and into state hospitals.

The research for this exhibition, drawn from the holdings of the Maryland State Archives (mostly S 195 and Govpubs), focuses on the use of photographs in the campaign for mental health care reform in Maryland during the early twentieth century, an effort spearheaded by the Maryland State Lunacy Commission. Photographs played an important role in bringing bad conditions to light and in persuading politicians and the general public that the state should take responsibility for the care of its indigent insane. The images constitute a rare example of Progressive Era reform photography still existant in Maryland.