Photographs of Custodial Institutions for the Mentally Deficient, ca. The photoprints were collected by the commission to illustrate its final report. Many were apparently collected from the State Board of Charities. The prints show a wide range of views including building exteriors, interior facilities and rooms, and patients working, eating, in classroom activities, and at play or rest. Prints from other states were gathered principally from the Massachusetts Training School at Waverly and the Menantico Colony and Training School at Vineland, New Jersey.
Arrangement is first by state, then by institution.
Available on microfilm. Albion State Training School. Photographic Prints and Negatives, ca. Photographs of Clinton Prison, ca. 4 cubic feet Contains approximately 1,500 photoprints and glass plate and film negatives, mostly dating from 1932 to 1945.