The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
Entry/Object ID
L2014.1.185
Description
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic. Evaluation of the contents and the lives of patients at the Willard Psychiatric Center, overlooking Seneca Lake, in upstate New York. When it closed in 1995, staff members of the New York State Museum discovered 400 suitcase left for decades in the attic of one of the buildings. They selected 10 cases to examine the lives, both joyful and pathetic, of their owners by comparing the written records available. It is a moving account.
205/Softbound/Photographs
