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Portrait of Dorothea Dix: half-length, full face, seated, head to left, arm resting on table.
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Title: Dorothea Dix
Creator: n/a
Date: Circa 1840
Format: Photograph
Source: National Library of Medicine, Prints and Photographs
Control no.: Portrait No. 2, Old Negative No. 73-39
Keywords: Activists; Advocacy; Asylums; Dorothea Dix; Government; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Insanity; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; Moral Treatment; Policy; Portrait; Psychiatric Disability; Sanitary Commission; Social Welfare
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy