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Letter from Dorothea Dix to hospital administrators for Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh

April 24, 1861

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Letter from Dorothea Dix to hospital administrators for Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Title
  • Letter from Dorothea Dix to hospital administrators for Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Date
  • April 24, 1861
  • Identifier
  • MSS_8_B002_F10_I35
  • Description
  • A letter from Dorothea Dix to hospital administrators for Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh (later known as Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at Dixmont and Dixmont State Hospital) regarding the expectations from the Legislature to construct the hospital.
  • Type
  • text
  • Genre
  • manuscripts (documents)
  • Source
  • Harper Family Papers and Photographs
  • Series
  • John Harper Papers 1834-1934
  • Container
  • Box 2, Folder 10, Item 9
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Harper Family Papers
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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