Listen to a description of wards at the Oregon State Hospital, published in the October 24, 1883 edition of the Morning Oregonian. Morning Oregonian October 24, 1883 A description of these wards serve as a correct [...]
The following article was found in a scrapbook in the Oregon State Hospital Museum Collections. From the text it appears that it was published in the Oregon Statesman Newspaper in 1965, although exact publication date [...]
Listen to the 1868 report of visiting physician Dr. J.S. Giltner to the Oregon Hospital for the Insane in Portland. The Oregon Hospital for the Insane was a private hospital run by Drs. Hawthorne and [...]
This is an excerpt from the Oregon Teacher’s Monthly magazine published in May 1916 (volume 20, no. 9). Oregon Teacher’s Monthly featured articles written by teachers, students and administrators related to general interest topics and [...]
In 1905, 48 people were admitted to the Oregon State Insane Asylum with a diagnosis of “alcoholism” and 16 for syphilitic symptoms. [1] George F. Berger was one of those people. Berger was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The following is a transcription from the July/August 1961 edition of The Lamplighter, a monthly magazine published by the patients of the Oregon State Hospital. The article addresses the the Patients as Nurses or P.A.N. [...]
The following is a transcribed staff list from the Biennial Report of the Oregon State Insane Asylum for the Biennium covering the years 1908 -1910. The list includes information on staff members, their positions, and [...]
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 [...]
