Title: Brief history of the charitable institutions of the state of Illinois
First published: 1893
Description: This consists of 10 short histories of the following institutions prepared by their superintendents, distributed at the Columbia Exposition of 1893.

-Institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, at Jacksonville, 1838-1893.
-Institution for the education of the blind, at Jacksonville. 1849-1893.
-Southern hospital for the insane, at Anna. 1869-1893.
-Central hospital for the insane, at Jacksonville 1847-1893.
-Eastern hospital for the insane, at Kankakee. 1877-1983.
-Northern hospital for the insane, at Elgin. 1869-1893.
-Charitable eye and ear infirmary, at Chicago. 1858-1893.
-Soldiers’ and sailors’ home, at Quincy. 1885-1893.
-Soldiers’ orphans’ home, at Normal. 1865-1893.
-Asylum for feeble minded children, at Lincoln, 1865-1893.
Subjects: Public welfare, Psychiatric hospitals
Places: Illinois
Time periods: 1835-1893
LC classification: HV86 .I4