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| A
group of workmen stand at the construction shack on October
3, 1930. It was erected on the mall directly in front
of the main dining room. Edge of Addams Building is at
right rear. |
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| Manteno
State Hospital dedication ceremony held in front of Administration
building, November 21, 1929. The coner stone (below center
of highest platform) was placed on this date by C. Herrick
Hammond, supervising architect. Other people in attendance
were: Mr.
Rodney H. Brandon, Director of Public Welfare; Dr.
Sidney Wilgus, state alienist; Mr. Carl Jewel, representing
the Mayor of Manteno; Mr.
A. L. Bowen, superintendent of charities of the Department
of Public Welfare; Reverend Peterson; Monsignor Primeau,
of Manteno; Colonel Frank Whipp, superintendent of prisons;
Mrs.
Mary L. Silvis, assistant director, Department of
Public Welfare; A. C. Everingham, state farm advisor;
and Dr. George Edmonson of Kankakee State Hospital. |
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| A.
L. Bowen, (left), superintendent of charities, and Director
of the Department of Public Welfare 1933 - 1941.
Dr. Ralph T. Hinton, (right), Superintendent of Manteno
State Hospital 1930-1939 and past Superintendent of Elgin
State Hospital 1911-1914 and 1917-1930. |
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| Here's
how the commissary looked in the early 1930's when it
was in Pinel basement. The only persons that could be
identified in this photo are Mrs. Bernice McFadden (checkered
dress) and Ray Crum at far right, then commissary manager.
Both have since died, said old timers at the hospital. |
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| This
photo, taken in late 1935, is a group picture of Manteno
State Hospital's nurses at the time. Seated, from left:
Mrs. Eleanor Hesley, now living in Kankakee; Miss Mabel
Coleman, chief nurse, now dead; Mrs. Cogsdil, present
whereabouts unknown, and Mrs. Mary Pickett, presently
an employe of Hillman Memorial Hospital in Manteno. Standing,
from left; Mrs. Florence Bradecich of Kankakee; Mrs. Esther
Wyrembeck, now with the tuberculosis unit at the Trudeau
wards here; Miss Ada Hart, who retired at Harrisburg;
Mrs. Betty Rhodes Hofeling, now in Chicago; Miss Stone,
deceased; Audey Ahivan, now Jones, address unknown, and
Mrs. Ilene Keyes, dead. Only three - Misses Coleman, Hart
and Stone then had nurse's classification. The rest, although
registered nurses, had the classification of attendant.
(Photo courtesy of Mrs. Lillian Long, assistant Medical
Records librarian who started at MSH in 1935.) |
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