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Postcards · circa 1900–1906

Main Building, asylum postcard

Historic Mental Health Institutions

A commercial postcard shows the main building of Connecticut's psychiatric hospital at Middletown in the early twentieth century.

Evidence, credit & reuse: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Ms Coll 94, box 1 folder 7; Greaves' Art Store, series 2082; printed Germany. Two scans (front/back); count as one postcard. Manifest is published but blocked in current browser. Related collection cross-reference; this image is also cataloged in connecticut-valley-hospital. Reuse: Rights review: Yale item carries copyright/site-license caution, not an open reuse license. Link only pending review.

Source: Raphael Tuck & Sons / Yale University, Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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Silent Grounds Collective, Historic Mental Health Institutions, SGC-MI-014, ED-X-regional-mental-institutions-2, “Main Building, asylum postcard.” Source: Raphael Tuck & Sons / Yale University, Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15789330. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.

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