Kirkbride-Langenheim Collaboration: Early Use of Photography in Psychiatric Treatment in Philadelphia
Entry/Object ID
2012.2.3245
Description
Kirkbride-Langenheim Collaboration: Early Use of Photography in Psychiatric Treatment in Philadelphia
Reprinted from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume CV, Number 2, April, 1981, the journal of the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
Research into the Kirkbride Archives at the Pennsylvania Hospital has shed new light on the connection of the "moral treatment" of insanity with the new art of photography, both developing at the same time in the mid-nineteenth century.
The photographic collection was used as a means of education and amusement for the patients of the hospital from 1844 through the end of the nineteenth century.
Booklet/Pictures.