For many years before the opening of the Oregon State Insane Asylum in Salem in 1883, Oregon contracted with a private hospital (the Oregon Hospital for the Insane) in Portland. Patients from all over the [...]
The following are transcriptions from two 1890 entries in the Oregon State Hospital Patient Clothing Inventory ledger, now housed at the Oregon State Archives (2/10/7/7). They offer an unusually intimate view into the personal wardrobes [...]
The following are excerpts from an article appearing in the Oregon Statesman on Sunday July 12, 1964. The Junior Volunteer Program was started at the Oregon State Hospital as a service program for high-school aged youths. By 1968, the program had [...]
The following announcement was published in the Oregon Statesman Newspaper on August 26, 1894. Prior to the passage of Federal laws regarding patient privacy, it was not uncommon for commitments to OSH (then the Oregon State [...]
In a time when the American Medical Association barred women from membership, Dr. Clara M. Davidson was practicing medicine at the Oregon State Hospital. An 1895 Cronise image of Oregon [...]