Enhanced CSH Finding Aid

Enhanced CSH Finding Aid

I. Minutes (Series: 1)

 Item titleQuantityPhysical location
1

CSH board minutes (1870-1937)

6 volumes

Boxes 1-2
2State hospital board minutes, letters, and memos (1939, 1943, 1954-1986431 itemsBox 3
3Local Building Committee (1963-67)49 itemsBox 3
4State hospital board photographs (1909, 1995)21 photosBox 3

II. Annual Reports (Series: 2)

 Item titleQuantityPhysical location
1State Hospital Board, Mental Hygiene & Hospitals (1911, 1914, 1918-19, 1938-46, 1951-57, 1959-61, 1965-71, 1978-79, 1986)44 volumesBoxes 4-5
2VA mental hospitals (1961-63, 1965-72)17 volumesBox 5
3CSH (1880-1910, 1912-23, 1925-54, 1956, 1958-81)38 volumesBoxes 4-5
4Statistical Annual Report of the VA State Department of Health (1962-64)4 volumesBox 5
5CSH Statistical Reports (1923-1976)3 volumes<unknown> - Box5?

III. Manuals of practices, procedures, and programs (Series: 3)

 Item titleQuantityPhysical location
1Transorbital Lobotomy (1954)2 itemsBox 6
2State Hospital Board Rules and Regulations (1905, 1955, 1977)4 itemsBox 6
3VA mental institutions (1957-58, 1965, 1972, 1980-82)11 itemsBox 6
4CSH instruction manuals (1955-56, 1960, 1964-92, 2002)22 itemsBox 6
5CSH treatment programs (1980-84)4 itemsBox 6
6Revised formulary (1972, 1991)2 itemsBox 6

IV. Finances (Series: 4)

 Item titleQuantityPhysical location
1Deeds (1882-1958)20 itemsBox 7
2Ledger (1923-34, 1950-54, 1924-45)2 volumesBox 7
3Financial reports (1941-80)13 itemsBox 7

V. Patient registers (Series: 5)

 Item titleQuantityPhysical location
1Records of Application and Admission (1868-1990)27 volumesCabinet
2Ward books (1924-1957)6 volumesCabinet
3Indexes (1930s-1940s)10 volumesCabinet
4Returns, furloughs, discharged, escaped, deaths (1923-69)7 volumesCabinet
5Correspondence (1926-45)16 foldersHollinger Box 1
6Census (1939-1990)5 volumesCabinet

VI. Images (Series: 6)

 Item titleQuantityPhysical location
1Buildings (1885-1998, n.d.)766 itemsPhoto boxes 1-5
2Staff (1908-1998, n.d.)824 itemsPhoto boxes 6 & 8
3Patients, activities, and procedures (1904-1981, n.d.)950 itemsPhoto boxes 6-8
4Slides891 itemsSlide boxes 1-2 (Austin, TX)
5Negatives5,874 items Binders 1-4 (Austin, TX)
6Reproductions (n.d.)13 itemsPanorama folders 1-2

VII. Central state history (Series: 7)

 Item titleQuantityPhysical location
1Centennial (1969)9 itemsBox 8
2Reports, brochures, and handbooks (1958-59, 1961-62, 1965, 1967-71, 1975-76,51 itemsBox 8
3Patient library (1974, 1983, 1985, 1989)9 itemsBox 8
4Dr. William F. Drewry (n.d.)4 itemsBox 8
5Guest book (1960-1982)1 volumeBox 8
6Placards (n.d.)44 itemsBox 8

VIII. Newsletters (Series: 8)

 Item titleQuantityPhysical location
1The Central State Hospital Observer (1967-74): CSH staff newsletter59 itemsBox 9
2C.S.H. Observer (1976-77): CSH staff newsletter18 itemsBox 9
3CSH News Update (1979-1999):  CSH staff newsletter195 itemsBox 9
4CSH News Update planning (1978-80, 1982): 24 itemsBox 9
5Mental Health News (1970-71); Advance Notice, 1979:  VA Mental Hygiene and Hospitals/VA Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation3 itemsBox 9
6The Correspondent newsletter (1958-68):  national staff newsletter 39 items (needs to be confirmed)<unknown> - Box 9?

IX. Clippings

Physical location: Boxes 10-13

X. Monographs

Physical location: Medical Records storage

XI. Miscellaneous objects

Physical location: Box 14

XII. Commitment papers

proposed addition to finding aid; scanned Library of VA holdings, which will need to be renumbered