Photograph
Conditions at Mendota State Hospital
| View of an open stair well at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute). The fourth floor has been abandoned because of the veritable fire hazard. One of a series of photographs calling attention to the inadequacies in personnel and facilities at the hospital. |
| Image ID: | 45877 |
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| Creation Date: | 02 07 1947 |
| Creator Name: | Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Arthur M. Vinje photographs and negatives, circa 1914-circa 1962 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6442.0945C |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 4 inches |
| One of fifteen images. Published in a series of articles in Wisconsin State Journal between February 19 and 27, 1947. |
| Stairs |
| Psychiatric hospitals |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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