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In the 19th and 20th centuries, reformers in the United States and Europe built asylums in response to a range of social issues including disability - mental health, and alcoholism. These documents and images from the NLM Digital Collections bring to life the day to day experiences of people at these sites: the conditions of the asylums and the limits on liberty that many people in them experienced.
U.S. Asylum for Insane Indians Annual Report and Census, 1926
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
In 1898, Congress created the first asylum for Native Americans. Over the next three decades, people from reservations across North America were removed from their families and homes and placed in the Canton Asylum in South Dakota.
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