{"title":"Records and Resources: Finding the History of Disability and Institutionalization at the Pennsylvania State Archives","authors":"Tyler Stump","doi":"10.5325/pennhistory.89.3.0337","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article discusses archival materials currently held by the Pennsylvania State Archives that are useful for studying the history of disability and institutionalization. The vast majority of these resources contain administrative, patient, and related records from state hospitals and state centers that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has operated from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.","PeriodicalId":42553,"journal":{"name":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"337 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pennsylvania History-A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.89.3.0337","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:This article discusses archival materials currently held by the Pennsylvania State Archives that are useful for studying the history of disability and institutionalization. The vast majority of these resources contain administrative, patient, and related records from state hospitals and state centers that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has operated from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.