Grave Marker
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1905
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: For many years, this grave marker marked the final resting place of Bertha Flaten in the cemetery at Faribault State School and Hospital in Minnesota. Flaten spent much of her life in an institution because she had a seizure disorder. When she died in 1905, her grave was located by a number rather than her name or dates. This stark record-keeping practice was common in state institutions across the country. Former patient in-mates, their families, and descendants have been replacing such markers with proper recognition, in an effort to restore their humanity.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Faribault
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Helen M. Diers, Lee Flaten and Jane D. Wong
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0016.01
label: accession number
content: 2000.0016
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0016.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: grave marker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: stone (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34.5 cm x 20 cm x 19 cm; 13 9/16 in x 7 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 24 in; 60.96 cm x 60.96 cm