Historic Mental Health Institutions
SGC nonprofit educational research archive
Edition: September 8, 2026

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Six source-backed profiles: Fairfield Hills, Westport Sanitarium, Hall-Brooke/McFarland’s, Silver Hill, Connecticut Mental Health Center and Yale Psychiatric Institute. One licensed Fairfield Hills photograph is included; other identified photographs remain linked to their publishers. Undercliff’s tuberculosis history has its own collection. Exact dates and coverage gaps are recorded per institution.

Includes selected original images, full acquired OCR, source catalog, credits and a SQLite FTS5 database. Complete repository PDFs and modern external articles are linked, not included. Coverage and missing records are described in each collection’s scope and individual item notes.

RESEARCH DATABASE
items stores the catalog; search_fts indexes source text. Example: SELECT id,title FROM search_fts WHERE search_fts MATCH 'history';

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