NY Times article late 1800s

regarding Blackwell Island's Asylum.



http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9405E2D6103EE73BBC4C52DFB7678382669FDE

Island Asylum

Looked up the presence of an island-mental hospital. I did find one that existed in the East River in New York.

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/164/4/581

More sketches of inmate devices

Sketch of whirling chair

used as "treatment" for mental illness.