Asylums
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Asylums -- Fiction
- Asylums -- Ohio
- Almshouses
- Blind -- Institutional care
- Deaf -- Institutional care
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Women -- Institutional care
- Benevolent institutions
- Charitable institutions
- Homes (Institutions)
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Behind the Bars (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1871), by Adeline T. P. Lunt (page images at HathiTrust)
- Shirley Hall Asylum: or, The Memoirs of a Monomaniac (London: W. Freeman, 1863), by William Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Rose and the Key (3 volumes; London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Warden, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and audio reading)
- Annual Report, by Longview Asylum and Longview Hospital (partial serial archives)
- Annual Report, by Longview Asylum and Longview Hospital (partial serial archives)
- Annual Report, by Ohio Board of Administration (full serial archives)
- Almshouse Women: A Study of Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight Women in the City and County Almshouse of San Francisco (Palo Alto: Stanford University, 1896), by Mary Roberts Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)
- Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
- Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Bulletin on the Condition of the County Almshouses of Missouri (1904), by Charles A. Ellwood (page images at Missouri)
- El Colegio Provincial de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos de Sevilla en la Exposición Universal de Paris de 1889: Memoria Relativa à su Historia, Organización, Regimen y Estado Actual, y Catalogo de los Objetos que Remite á Dicha Exposición (in Spanish; Seville: Im. del Colegio de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos, 1889), by Antonio Pichardo y Casado
- The Silent Worker (partial serial archives)
- El Colegio Provincial de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos de Sevilla en la Exposición Universal de Paris de 1889: Memoria Relativa à su Historia, Organización, Regimen y Estado Actual, y Catalogo de los Objetos que Remite á Dicha Exposición (in Spanish; Seville: Im. del Colegio de Sordo-Mudos y de Ciegos, 1889), by Antonio Pichardo y Casado
- Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Mental Ward: A Personnel Guidebook (Springfield, IL: C. C. Thomas, c1962), by Morgan Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Mad World and its Inhabitants (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston, Searl and Rivington, 1877), by Julius Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Modern Persecution (2 volumes with different subtitles and publishers; 1873), by E. P. W. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
- On the Construction, Organization, and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane; With Some Remarks on Insanity and its Treatment (second edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1880), by Thomas Story Kirkbride (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mental Illness: A Guide for the Family (revised edition; New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1945), by Edith M. Stern and Samuel W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Exposing the Modern Secret Way of Persecuting Christians in Order to Hush the Voice of Truth: Insane Hospitals are Inquisition Houses; All Heaven is Interested in This Crime (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Elizabeth T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane (1918), by American Medico-Psychological Association and National Committee for Mental Hygiene
- Des Maladies Mentales, Considérées Sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-Légal (2 text volumes and an atlas, in French; Paris and London: J.-B. Ballière, 1838), by Etienne Esquirol (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Reasons for the Establishing, and Further Encouragement of St. Luke's Hospital, for Lunaticks, Together with the Rules and Orders for the Government Thereof (London: J. March and Son, 1797), by St. Luke's Hospital (London, England) (page images at NIH)
- Description of the Retreat, an Institution Near York, for Insane Persons of the Society of Friends: Containing an Account of its Origin and Progress, the Modes of Treatment, and a Statement of Cases (Philadelphia: I. Peirce, 1813), by Samuel Tuke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Resident Physician of the Lunatic Asylum of the State of Georgia, by Georgia Lunatic Asylum (partial serial archives)
- The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, by Ebenezer Haskell (page images at MOA)
- Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)
- Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet", by John Clare, ed. by J. L. Cherry (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of John Clare, by Frederick Martin (Gutenberg text)
- Reports of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, 1847-1862 (Chicago: F. Fulton and Co., 1863), by Jacksonville Insane Asylum (Ill.), contrib. by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at Google)
- From Under the Cloud: or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1886), by Anna Agnew (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)
- An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)
- Two Years and Three Months in the New York Lunatic Asylum at Utica; Together With the Outlines of Twenty Years' Peregrinations in Syracuse (1855), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at Google)
- Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane: Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, February 3, 1845 (Philadelphia: I. Ashmead, printer, 1845), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, by Ebenezer Haskell (page images at MOA)
- Behind the Door of Delusion: By "Inmate Ward 8" (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Marle Woodson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States (Hoosick Falls, NY: Printed for the author, 1874), by Moses Swan
- Sane or Insane? or, How I Regained Liberty (c1904), by Margaret Starr (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)
- "They Call Them Camisoles" (Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, c1940), by Wilma Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Astounding Disclosures! Three Years in a Mad House, by a Victim (Skowhegan, ME: Printed for the author, 1851), by Isaac H. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Plan for a Preservatory and Reformatory for the Benefit of Deserted Girls and Penitent Prostitutes (London: R. Francklin, 1758), by John Fielding (multiple formats at Google)
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Filed under: Charities- Who Cares? How State Funding and Political Activism Change Charity (c2007), by Nick Seddon (PDF at Civitas)
- House of Hospitality (1939), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
- Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical (3 volumes from various editions printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1798-1802), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Literature of Philanthropy (New York: Harper and Bros., 1893), ed. by Frances A. Goodale (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Social Diagnosis (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1917), by Mary Ellen Richmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (4 volumes; Boston: Estes and Lauriat, ca. 1870-1875), by Benjamin Rumford (page images at HathiTrust)
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