Dance held for inmates of the Blackwell's Island Asylum, New York City, November 6, 1865, artist's impression, detail

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Dance held for inmates of the Blackwell's Island Asylum, New York City, November 6, 1865, artist's impression, detail
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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, September 14, 2015.
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engraving
Original caption
Dancing by Lunatics - Ball given to the patients of the Insane Asylum on Blackwell's Island, New York, November 6, 1865. - Sketched by W.H. Davenport.
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, December 2, 1865, p. 765.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here. 
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