The following report of the Florist Department at the Oregon State Hospital was taken from the 22nd Biennial Report of the Oregon State Hospital for the biennium ending September 30, 1926. The work of this [...]
It is hard to imagine, but when the Oregon State Hospital was built, it stood in farmland about half a mile outside the city limits of Salem. The route between town and the hospital would, [...]
Source: A Survey of the State Mental Institutions of Oregon. Washington, D.C.: United States Public Health Service, 1940. […]
The following is an inventory list made of drugs housed in the drug room and various other sectors of the Oregon State Hospital as of June 30, 1931. The list appears as part of a [...]
The following is an article from the May 1958 edition of The Suggestor, a newsletter published by the Oregon State Employee Awards Board. Congratulations, Mr. Mommsen! After switching his attention from cutting meat to cutting [...]
The following list was published in the 7th Biennial Report of the Oregon State Insane Asylum. It lists “causes for insanity” of people admitted to the hospital between December 1894 and November 1896. Cause Male [...]
The following history was compiled for the 75th Anniversary edition of the Oregon State Hospital Publication, The Lamplighter in1958. It was written by R. H. Miller. From Rags to Research [...]
The following is an interview with Engineer J.A. Garson published in the October 1958 edition of the Lamplighter, an OSH newsletter. The article coincided with the 75th anniversary of the [...]
The following was published in the 75th Anniversary edition of the Oregon State Hospital publication, The Lamplighter, as reported by Grace Carman. The article refers to the Senior Cadet Nurses program, a three month intensive [...]
NPR featured a story on photographer Christopher Payne's book titled Asylum: Inside The Closed World Of State Mental Hospitals. Read the article here. You can see more of Payne's photographs of Asylums across [...]