JF Ptak Science Books Post 1475
Following up on yesterday’s post on the Architecture of Insanity is this selection of postcards featuring insane asylums. They are all American, and all manufactured ca. 1900-1920, when the thirst for picture postcards depicting local history and structural vignettes was in its heyday. I am uncertain why these images were appealing enough for people to use and send through the mail, but there certainly seems to have been a lot of them–a quick pursuit of them found these in a hurry, and I suspect that there may be hundreds more.
The content certainly would have been interesting to read. And now that I think about it a little, there is material enough to create a version of Wisconsin Death Trip with these images.
New Jersey Hospital for Feeble-Minded Women:
Insane Asylum and Almshouse, Lancaster, Pennsylvania:
