Map and timeline of newspaper matches for "insane asylum" OR "insane asylums" OR "lunatic asylum" OR "lunatic asylums"
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Newspaper results for "insane asylum" OR "insane asylums" OR "lunatic asylum" OR "lunatic asylums"

US News Map searches Chronicling America, the Library of Congress collection of digitized American newspapers, and maps every matching page by where and when it was printed. Play the timeline to watch a word or a story move across the country.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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346468 matching newspaper pages in total. New York, NY has the most hits (19234 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. The Herald — 1836-02-10, page 1

    … bill lias passed the Assembly appropriating $50,000 for the crection of a State Lunatic Asylum. Important.?We hare the best authority for faying that the proper committee i-i …

  2. The Herald — 1837-02-07, page 1

    … in " good lodging*''?which, being tianslateH into yet plainer English, means n lunatic asylum?"with tii? head shorn and every bit of Ins whiskers shaven."? Thelast is the worst …

  3. The Herald — 1837-04-26, page 2

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … humility and economy, happy are they who takeit SvIcIDE.-A person confined in the Lunatic Asylum Bellevue, committed suicide on Tuesday last by forming rope Of pieces of his blanket …

  4. Morning Herald — 1837-06-05, page 2

    … atnl caprices, that we can as readily eah'jlaie on the conduct ol an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum. The coasting atnl internal trade i? equally contracting The tolls on the New York …

  5. Morning Herald — 1837-07-14, page 2

    … became absolutely mad? England and ! Franee presented the spectacles of two large lunatic asylums. After several years fermentation, the social and political systems of both countries …

  6. Morning Herald — 1837-07-21, page 2

    … practices under the pre tence of ridiculous and absurd theories, fitter for the Lunatic Asylum, than the attention ?i men of sense. Under these councils the whale country has …

  7. Morning Herald — 1837-08-02, page 2

    … with thistles. The truth is, froru 1934 up to March, 1837, the world was a big Lunatic Asylum. Kvery body fancied himself ss rich ssCrmsus, powerful as t'ipsar ? gnat as Napoleon …

  8. Morning Herald — 1837-09-19, page 2

    … brmiptii his wif* out nt j1 ? Cincinna'i theatre, where he is ? great favorite. Tm Lunatic Asylum. ? We look with muchianx iety for the Comii? oners' Report op this institu tion …

    … knows? Such things have occurred here. We knew an Alderman whs was sent to the Lunatic asylum be | fore his term of service expired. How would he or his frirnds have felt had …

  9. Morning Herald — 1837-11-14, page 2

    … and the following additional sums were wanted . For the Alms House, - - 20 000 ? Lunatic Asylum, - ^ ^ " Fire Department, - <? Stationary and Printing, - in nno , ?? Repairs and …

    … been already exnendedfor the Aln b House, and thirty-five thousand dollars for the Lunatic Asylum. The Report was finally relerred "jfaSEKnK hundred*dollars was then gran, ^AWm? …

  10. Morning Herald — 1838-01-04, page 2

    … appointed under the act " to authorise the establishment of the New York State Lunatic Asylum," to select a suitable location for that institution, reported ih the early part …

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