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An engraving depicting a long building with six wings of 3 floors and a 4 story central section with a dome and extensive grounds.
Title page, edited by the officers of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, Utica.
Dramatic formal portrait of a white man, head and shoulders, front pose, with his signature below.
Formal portrait of a white man seated at a desk with an open book; glasses on forehead; thoughtful pose.
Mid-19th-century compilation portrait of 176 members, all men.
A person is sitting in a chair; his body is immobilized by straps at the shoulders, arms, waist, and feet; a box-like apparatus is used to confine the head. There is a bucket attached beneath the seat.
Formal photographic portrait an older, bearded, white man, seated, wearing glasses.
Lithograph of head of French soldier facing right with brain exposed.

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Dramatic formal portrait of a white man, head and shoulders, front pose, with his signature below.

Amariah Brigham

First editor of The American Journal of Insanity (AJI).

Amariah Brigham (1798–1849) was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts and received his medical training at the N.Y. College of Physicians and Surgeons. He spent the following year in Europe to further his medical education and returned to Massachusetts in 1829 to establish a practice. In 1840, he became Superintendent of the Hartford Retreat, and in 1842, moved to the Utica State Hospital, the first public mental hospital in New York State.

Engraved by H.B. Hall from a Daguerreotype.

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