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Fairmont Hospital Employees' Scrapbook

An inventory of the item at Syracuse University


Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 6 Mar 2023



Biographical History

According to the National Library of Medicine, "the 1970s was a decade of increasing refinement and specificity of existing treatments [for mental illness]. There was increasing focus on the negative effects of various treatments, such as deinstitutionalization, and a stronger scientific basis for some treatments emerged.... In psychotherapy there was a change toward more eclectic and pragmatic approaches, as evidenced by the combining of behavioral and dynamic techniques and an increased use of short-term psychotherapies..."

Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro, California is part of the Alameda Health System (AHS), formerly Alameda County Medical Center (ACMC). Fairmont Hospital emerged in the 1920s as the first public rehabilitation facility in the Western United States.


Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Fairmont Hospital Employees' Scrapbook consists of a single volume with multiple unidentified contributors. The contents include handwritten entries, clippings, photographs, ephemera, etc. The volume was clearly informal and unofficial in nature (on the cover is written "LOOSE LOG" and "BOO HISS"). Taken together, the volume provides unusual insight into the daily life, attitudes, and concerns of psychiatric hospital staff.


Arrangement of the Collection

One volume.


Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.


Subject Headings

Corporate Bodies

Fairmont Hospital (San Leandro, Ca.)

Subjects

Black humor.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Employees.
Psychiatric nursing.

Places

California.

Genres and Forms

Clippings (information artifacts)
Scrapbooks.

Occupations

Psychiatric nurses.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

Fairmont Hospital Employees' Scrapbook,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 2023.


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Memorabilia


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