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A photograph of the Kansas State Insane Asylum in Osawatomie, Kansas. The hospital was established by the State of Kansas in 1866 and had beds for 12 patients when it opened. By the end of the next year it housed 22 with applications for 50 more.
Creator: Tresslar Bros., Fort Scott, KS.
Date: Between 1880 and 1910
Item Number: 229115
Call Number: FK2.7 HOO. *7
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 229115
Built Environment - Function - Health Care - Hospital
Business and Industry - Health care - Hospitals
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - State hospitals
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Osawatomie
Places - Counties - Miami
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917
Type of Material - Photographs
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