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Title
State Hospital's Odd Odds: Weird Ends Are For Sale
Creator
Traverse City Record Eagle

Institution
Munson Medical Center

Subject
Hospital Planning

Subject
Sales of items from ex-psychiatric hospital includes electric shock machines and brain coral.

Subject
NULL

Item Number
CK05a001

Relation
NULL

Type
text, text

Format
tiff

Description
Newspaper article with photographs: top, for the less mobile patients, wheelchairs like these were used. Below, Judy Owen stands among paintings and furniture in Building 21. Bottom, a steel fever inducer is one of the many peculiar things for sale at the auction this weekend.

State Hospital

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