Buffalo State Hospital: A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow

Acknowledged authors Ference, Ian, Disability History, Museum of wrote Buffalo State Hospital: A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow comprising 168 pages back in 2016. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0986218294 and 9780986218293. Since then Buffalo State Hospital: A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price of $ 0.30 or rent at the marketplace.

Buffalo State Hospital: A History of the Institution in Light and Shadow is a powerful treatise on mental health care in the Western New York area in the 19th and 20th centuries. The book and its thought-provoking images show an institution in transition. Historic photography shows the building in its bygone splendor as envisioned by prominent American architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, coupled with modern ruins photography by Ian Ference, which allows the viewer a glimpse of the forsaken wasteland that has been locked away, not to be seen. Do not get too distracted by these photographs of waste and destruction for they are only a piece of the story, however with the discovery of this collection of hidden images, we are able to provide the reader with a rare perspective of this once noble institution. Also included in this book are powerful testimonies from key stakeholders from this now shuttered institution, including patients, employees, and neighbors of the facility.