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Siggins Album Rotating Photograph Display

Siggins Photo Album, Views of the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital, circa 1899-1909

Photographed by Elsie Culp Siggins and Clyde B. Siggins.

This stop shows 109 rotating historical images that are projected on to a white wall.  These images are sepia toned and are 4 feet high by 5 feet wide.

Photographs of the staff and grounds of the Michigan Asylum for the Insane (later known as the Kalamazoo State Hospital and then the Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital) are from an album compiled by Elsie Culp Siggins. She and her husband, Clyde B. Siggins, were employed at the hospital, first as attendants and later as supervisors, from about 1899 to about 1909. Many photos were taken by the couple at Brook Farm and the Asylum Lake Colony.

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