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A picture of the roof protrusion on the left side of the building.

Picture of the front of the building with emphasis on the roof.

Picture of the skylight like structure taken from the front of the building.

A picture taken of the left side of the building that shows electrical wiring.

An 1842 record of meeting minutes showing Superintendent Maximilian Laborde request for assistance from local clergy.

"In Observance of National Mental Health Week," the SCDMH exhibited a two day program to inform the public about mental health by using films and speakers to explain what causes mental disturbances in children and to "consider with us the Mental…

In this pamphlet, there is an image of a "gravy train" and the Hospital had two of these in order to deliver hot meal containers to various dining halls on the Bull Street Campus. It states that "Patients and hospital employees get identical fare."

"OLD KITCHEN at State Park Unit (left,above) gave way to gleaming new Food Service Building (right, above) in 1962. At left, Head Cook Warren Ducote at Columbia Unit, a former mess sergent at Fort Jackson and a Louisiana Frenchman, sends a sizable…

A picture of the inside of one of the dining room's.

"One of the many growing problems at the state mental institutions is adequate housing for under-18 children and over-65 men and women." Many children are mixed with "chronically ill adult patients" and the 800 patients over the age of 65 "are housed…