Dancing by Lunatics -- Ball Given to the Patients of the Insane Asylum on Blackwell's Island, New York
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Title
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Dancing by Lunatics -- Ball Given to the Patients of the Insane Asylum on Blackwell's Island, New York
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Description
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Blackwell's Island was a grim place but there were lighthearted moments, as this newspaper clipping from 1865 shows. The image depicts asylum patients partaking of merriment.
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Creator
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W.H. Davenport
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Date
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1865
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Language
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English
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Source
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https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/11/nellie-bly-undercover-in-new-yorks-notorious-asylum-for-the-insane.html
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Subject
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19th century, 19th-century etchings, mental illness, 19th-century mental illness
