LC control no. | n 2013186777 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum |
Variant(s) | New York City Lunatic Asylum Blackwell's Island Asylum |
See also | Successor: Manhattan State Hospital N.Y. City Asylum for the Insane |
Beginning date | 1839 |
Ending date | 1899 |
Found in | Code of rules and regulations for the government of those employed at the N.Y. City Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island, 1880. Asylum Projects Web site, Sept. 12, 2013 (Blackwell's Island Asylum; opened in 1839; housed female patients after the opening of the Ward's Island Asylum in 1871; in 1894 the city asylums on Hart's, Ward's, and Blackwell's Islands were leased to the state, and renamed Manhattan State Hospital in 1899)) |