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My small historical artifact collection.

These are postcards and artifacts relating to work I have done, primarily on twentieth-century state institutions in California for the mentally retarded and the mentally ill. Most of these pictures are scanned from my personal collection, please contact me if you are interested in higher resolution versions of them for any legitimate purpose.

If you have stumbled across this page while trying to locate state hospital records for historical or genealogical research purposes, there is a useful page put together by California State University Sacramento's Center for Science, History, Policy, and Ethics describing the locations of records relating to state hospitals and eugenics available here as a PDF file.