A Visual Look Into the History of Eastern State Hospital

This Album Contains Photographs and Mementos

Note: many of the proceeding photographs came from forgotten storage files. Some came from annual reports that were published by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

729px-esh44 — Rear of Gragg Building *(Circa 1950s)*

12792139_1013803278656444_6594703865278022740_o — Wendell Tuberculosis Ward

13047707_1050264981676940_6204805115461019738_o — Original Eastern State Hospital Built in 1817

800px-eshtree — Maintenance Workers Installing Christmas Tree

575px-esh37 — Staff at nurse’s station in Wendell Building

727px-esh45 — Wendell Building, Sun Porch

757px-easternstate4a — Crowded Ward Beds

eshkyadmin — Eastern State Hospital Administration Building

800px-eshholiday1 — Live Nativity Scene Between the Gragg and Wendell Buildings

800px-esh70 — Occupational Therapy Staff *(Circa 1940s)*

12747906_1013803601989745_206029131366725686_o — Eastern State Hospital Staff

778877854443 — Dr. Logan Gragg, Superintendent

800px-esh13 — Looking from Ward 15 to Gate House

12471903_990085527694886_6422665151359355991_o — Dr. Logan Gragg, Majel Moore, et al.

easternstate1a — Eastern State Hospital Administration Building

800px-esh18 — Henrietta Rogers, Superintendent of Nurses *(Circa 1939)*

1937468_788905921146182_4695636518571571339_n — Eastern State Hospital *(Circa 1960s)*

Contributed by Phil Tkacz | contact@kyhi.org

⁘ Works Cited ⁘

The Lexington Leader, 9 December 1949
The Lexington Leader, 12 December 1952

Eastern State Hospital (Lexington, Kentucky). History of Institution or Historical Data, 1816-1968. Record Group 1428E, OCLC 907013318. Special Collections, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY.
Eastern State Hospital (Lexington, Kentucky). Miscellaneous Papers, 1828-1920. Record Group 1428E, OCLC 122335798. Special Collections, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY.

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