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Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an extraordinarily rich data source—the daily diaries that the asylum’s lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850—this book offers a new perspective on institutional life.

Founding Friends: Families, Staff, And Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-century Philadelphia

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Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By... Read more

    Publisher: Lehigh University Press
    Publication Date: 01/01/2006
    ISBN13: 9781611460353, 978-1611460353
    ISBN10: 1611460352

    Number of Pages: 253

    Non Fiction , History

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    Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an extraordinarily rich data source—the daily diaries that the asylum’s lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850—this book offers a new perspective on institutional life.

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