Suitcases left in a New York insane asylum by patients who were locked away

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The chilling pictures of suitcases left in a New York insane asylum by patients who were locked away for the rest of their lives

Four hundred suitcases, collected from patients at a New York asylum from 1910 to 1960, were found in an attic 1995. The link shows the contents of a few of the 80 that have been photographed.

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Here’s the official website.

http://www.suitcaseexhibit.org/flashSite.html

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Fascinating. It’s too bad that the families of those patients (if they can be found) can’t have the suitcases.

I noticed a book in one suitcase – Amazon Throne by Bertita Harding. That one is about the Braganzas, Portugese royals from Brazil. There’s no Wiki bio on Ms. Harding, which is odd because she wrote a lot of books – mostly royal family biographies. All I can find was a PDF of a leaflet announcing that she’d be lecturing. Beautiful woman. Here’s the leaflet.

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I’ve actually been to see this exhibit, when it was at the local museum. Looking at the artifacts, even behind glass, is extremely compelling.

Here is the link to the traveling exhibit:

http://www.suitcaseexhibit.org/indexhasflash.html

I highly recommend going, if it’s ever in your town.