The New York Bloomingdale Insane Asylum records, 1880-1910

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Series III: Letters, Prints, and Printed

Letters:

Request Box 1

Box 1 Folder 1 Autograph letter, signed by Dr. Samuel B. Lyon, to Frederick D. Tappan, 18 June 1901, 4 pages

(Related to the purchase of the Onderdonk farm. Includes a hand drawn map enttiled "Bloomingdale and Surroundings")

Request Mapcase 15-H-15

Mapcase 15-H-15 Folder 1 Two formal letters to the Governors of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum petitioning for the internment of Calvin Thayer, 3 July 1822 & 2 July 1829, 2 pages

Prints:

Mapcase 15-H-15 Folder 2 Map of the grounds of the New York Hospital, Bloomingdale Hospital in White Plains (in color and scale 1" = 360 Ft)

Mapcase 15-H-15 Folder 3 "Bloomingdale. White Plains", 1894

(Black and white print, showing front elevation of the buildings. Accompanied by a one paged typed description of the print and its history)

Printed:

Request Box 1

Box 1 Folder 2 Guide for the Attendants at the Bloomindale Asylum for the Insane , 1844

(With manuscript annotations throughout)

Box 1 Folder 3 History Description and Statistics of the Bloomindale Asylum. New York: Egbert, Hovey & King, Printers, 374 Pearl Street, 1848, 1 volume

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The New York Bloomingdale Insane Asylum records, 1880-1910

Series III: Letters, Prints, and Printed