Artifact Spotlight: T2009.002.0386
These plates were inventoried in the Gold Room in 2010.
Help Us Envision the New Museum
The Board of Directors of the Oregon State Hospital Museum will be meeting to talk about the future of the museum in the coming weeks. Help us understand what you would like to see as [...]
Patients Manage Recreation Plans, 1961
The following article was published in the Capital Journal on April 28, 1961. A girl who had talked to no one for seven years — separated from reality by an “escape mechanism” barrier– has shown [...]
Lipiodol Lafay
T2009.002.487 and T2009.002.467 are boxes of Lipiodol Lafay distributed by the E. Fougera & Co., Inc made in cooperation with the Andre Guerbet & Company. "A stable iodine addition product of poppyseed oil" used for [...]
State Hospital Patients’ “New Look”, 1965
The following is an excerpt from an Oregon Journal newspaper article published on Tuesday, April 20, 1965. The changes described would not last long. By 1969, patient clothing reappeared in the news. Articles in the [...]
Television Unveiled
At the last museum board meeting, this newly restored television set was presented. The television appeared in the baseball scene of the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” where the character McMurphy famously announces the [...]
Bird’s Eye View
T2009.002.427.109 Aerial Photograph, Oregon State Hospital, sometime between 1951 and 1973. Photograph from the collections of the Oregon State Hospital. Image is taken from the southwestern corner facing towards the northeast. The large white building [...]
Patients Manage Recreation Plans, 1961
The following article was published in the Capital Journal on April 28, 1961. A girl who had talked to no one for seven years — separated from reality by an “escape mechanism” barrier– has shown [...]
State Hospital Jewish Rites Inaugurated, 1961
The following was published in the Oregon Statesman newspaper on April 3, 1961, page 2. Jewish Passover services with traditional ceremonial Seder dinner was observed Sunday night at the Oregon State Hospital for patients of [...]
Blaze Destroys State Hospital Farm Barns, 1931
The following is an article from the Oregon Statesman published May 31, 1931. Blaze Destroys Two State Hospital Farm Barns, Loss $40,000 Excited Inmate Dashes Into Inferno, Saved With Shirt Burned ——– Believed Incendiary; Cattle [...]