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 [...]
Probably the most interesting and emotional thing I have found in inventorying historic materials at the Oregon State Hospital was a box of index cards. The orange box didn’t look like much, but the cards [...]
The following is an account published in the Sunday Oregonian June 14, 1936. The piece was co-written by a staff reporter and a patient at the Oregon State Hospital. It offers a unique first hand [...]
In 1972, 51 Oregon State Hospital patients and 51 Oregon State Hospital staff spent 16 days on a wilderness trip in Eastern Oregon. It was an experimental, and perhaps radical, program designed to radically change the [...]
John’s tale begins with a paperclip. In putting away some old records found in storage today, I came across one employee card with two rusting paperclips clipped to the back of it, making it difficult [...]
On September 15, 1969, Dr. Dean K. Brooks, then superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, gave a speech before the Association of Medical Superintendents of Mental Hospitals at a meeting [...]
The OPB Radio program "Think Out Loud" featured an interview with Oregon State Hospital Superintendent Greg Roberts last week about the new Oregon State Hospital. Click here to listen to program and to read comments [...]
Veterans Day is tomorrow. On the day that we remember the sacrifices made by members of our armed forces, here is the story of one veteran who is a reminder that not all causalities of war [...]