Connecticut Valley Hospital
Nine reproduced source pages include three architectural engravings and six administrative documents. Selected page OCR is searchable. Actual later campus photographs and the current map are linked at their official sources; they are not included as unrestricted images. No individual patient case files or original death certificates have been acquired.

id: CV-001
title: Main Hospital, published 1888
kind: Historical illustrations
date: 1888
summary: The main hospital and landscaped grounds, shown in the hospital’s 1888 report. This is a period engraving, not a camera photograph.
url: https://archive.org/download/b30318403/b30318403.pdf#page=2
credit: Thos. Chubbuck, engraver, Springfield, Massachusetts (signed in plate); Wellcome Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public Domain Mark 1.0, explicitly recorded in repository metadata. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/main-hospital-1888.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-002
title: Middle Hospital, published 1888
kind: Historical illustrations
date: 1888
summary: The report’s Middle Hospital plate presents a clock tower, fountain and carriage on the hospital grounds.
url: https://archive.org/download/b30318403/b30318403.pdf#page=4
credit: Thos. Chubbuck, engraver, Springfield, Massachusetts (signed in plate); Wellcome Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public Domain Mark 1.0, explicitly recorded in repository metadata. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/middle-hospital-1888.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-003
title: South Hospital, published 1888
kind: Historical illustrations
date: 1888
summary: The South Hospital appears in the 1888 report with extensive wings, porches and landscaped approaches.
url: https://archive.org/download/b30318403/b30318403.pdf#page=6
credit: Thos. Chubbuck, engraver, Springfield, Massachusetts (signed in plate); Wellcome Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public Domain Mark 1.0, explicitly recorded in repository metadata. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/south-hospital-1888.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-004
title: The hospital’s twenty-second report
kind: Historical documents
date: 1888
summary: Printed in Middletown in 1888, this report covers the biennium ending June 30, 1888 and was presented to the General Assembly in January 1889.
url: https://archive.org/download/b30318403/b30318403.pdf#page=7
credit: Connecticut Hospital for the Insane; Pelton & King, printers; Wellcome Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public Domain Mark 1.0, explicitly recorded in repository metadata. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/annual-report-title-1888.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-005
title: The founding act, 1866
kind: Historical documents
date: 1866-06-29
summary: Section 1 created the state institution under the name “The General Hospital for the Insane of the State of Connecticut.” This page comes from an 1895 reprint.
url: https://archive.org/download/cu31924012463208/cu31924012463208.pdf#page=15
credit: Connecticut General Assembly; reprinted by H. Sidney Hayden; Cornell University Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public domain in the United States by publication in 1895; digitization states no known US copyright restrictions on the text. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/founding-act-1866.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-006
title: Approval dated June 29, 1866
kind: Historical documents
date: 1866-06-29
summary: The act’s final clauses record an initial appropriation and approval on June 29, 1866. The scan is of the 1895 reprint.
url: https://archive.org/download/cu31924012463208/cu31924012463208.pdf#page=17
credit: Connecticut General Assembly; reprinted by H. Sidney Hayden; Cornell University Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public domain in the United States by publication in 1895; digitization states no known US copyright restrictions on the text. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/founding-act-approval-1866.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-007
title: The superintendent records the opening
kind: Historical documents
date: 1869; describes 1868-04-30
summary: The report for the year ending March 31, 1869 records the opening to male patients on April 30, 1868. Reprinted in 1895.
url: https://archive.org/download/cu31924012463208/cu31924012463208.pdf#page=63
credit: Connecticut Hospital for the Insane; reprinted by H. Sidney Hayden; Cornell University Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public domain in the United States by publication in 1895; digitization states no known US copyright restrictions on the text. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/opening-report-1869.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-008
title: The hospital farm’s account
kind: Historical documents
date: 1887–1888
summary: The farmer’s report lists quantities and values of crops for the years ending June 30, 1887 and 1888. It documents the hospital’s agricultural economy.
url: https://archive.org/download/b30318403/b30318403.pdf#page=24
credit: Connecticut Hospital for the Insane; Wellcome Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public Domain Mark 1.0, explicitly recorded in repository metadata. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/farm-report-1888.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-009
title: Staff, work and institutional life
kind: Historical documents
date: 1888
summary: The superintendent counted 179 employees across wards, sewing rooms, kitchens, laundry, farm and other work. The same page discusses patient work from the administration’s perspective.
url: https://archive.org/download/b30318403/b30318403.pdf#page=13
credit: Connecticut Hospital for the Insane; Wellcome Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public Domain Mark 1.0, explicitly recorded in repository metadata. Not a camera photograph. Record/engraving publication date is separate from date of the events described. Passed visual review: upright; source borders and printing retained; legible at full size; no generative reconstruction.
file: images/staff-and-work-1888.webp
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-010
title: Twenty-second report of the Board of Trustees, Connecticut Hospital for the Insane
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 1888
summary: This digitized bound item continues with material about the separate Hartford Retreat after the CVH report. Only selected pages 2–24 from the CVH report are used here.
url: https://archive.org/details/b30318403
credit: Wellcome Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public Domain Mark 1.0, explicitly recorded in repository metadata.
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-011
title: To the memory of Dr. Joseph W. Alsop: reprint of Connecticut Hospital reports
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 1895
summary: Digitized primary publication; selected pages are included.
url: https://archive.org/details/cu31924012463208
credit: Cornell University Library, via Internet Archive
notes: Public domain in the United States by publication in 1895; digitization states no known US copyright restrictions on the text.
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-012
title: Connecticut Valley Hospital — About CVH
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Current institutional record
summary: official current institutional overview
url: https://portal.ct.gov/dmhas/cvh/agency-files/cvh---about-cvh
credit: Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
notes: Linked public record; full contents are not reproduced.
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-013
title: Connecticut General Hospital for the Insane / Connecticut Valley Hospital — National Register nomination
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 1985, with later additional documentation
summary: official heritage record
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/85001920_text
credit: National Park Service; prepared by Kate Ohno for Connecticut Historical Commission
notes: No blanket public-domain status: third-party forms, images, maps may retain copyright. External reference only.
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-014
title: National Register photographic documentation
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Current institutional record
summary: Digitized primary publication; selected pages are included.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/85001920_photos
credit: National Park Service / Connecticut Historical Commission
notes: External reference only. Photographer credits do not establish an unrestricted reuse license.
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
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id: CV-015
title: Shew Hall, May 1984
kind: Referenced photographs & maps
date: 1984-05
summary: Shew Hall photographed by Kate Ohno in May 1984; caption and negative credit on PDF page 2.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/85001920_photos#page=1
credit: Kate Ohno; negative held by Connecticut Historical Commission; National Park Service NRHP file 85001920.
notes: Unrestricted reuse not established; NPS explains that third-party photographs may remain copyrighted. Link to original only; do not ship local reference-only image in Site assets.
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institution: Middletown · founding records, campus illustrations & annual reports
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: CV-016
title: Campus and district map in National Register file
kind: Referenced photographs & maps
date: Current map
summary: Numbered campus map distinguishing contributing and noncontributing buildings in the National Register documentation.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/85001920_text#page=32
credit: Connecticut Historical Commission / National Park Service NRHP file 85001920.
notes: No explicit unrestricted reuse license established. Link to original only. This is an archival campus map, not current patient-care wayfinding.
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