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Women of the Antebellum Reform Movement
A portrait of Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the indigent insane who helped establish the US’s first mental asylums.

A portrait of Dorothea Dix, an advocate for the indigent insane who helped establish the US’s first mental asylums.

Citation Information
“Dorothea L. Dix,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/c7ca1ecc6282ce5873d3bf5d94d63fcc.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of The New York Public Library.

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