ESH: Documents

Letters From the Asylum

Informational Posters 1825-1914

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1907-1909 Tables and Statistics

Burial Information (Circa 1975)

Historical Maps and Blueprints

Appointment of Henry Clay McDowell as Commissioner of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum for the Insane. (From the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation Papers, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky)

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