Joseph
Mehr, Ph.D., for
not only writing and publishing the book,
"An
Illustrated History of Illinois Public Mental
Health Services, 1847 - 2000",
but also for personally sending me a lot
of information on the Manteno State Hospital.
Thank you very much, Dr. Mehr!
Jan
Heppe and the Manteno
Public Library District
who have been so generous to offer their
help on the project.
The
people who have
donated their artifacts, contributed stories
about Manteno State Hospital and continue
to do so.
Rick
Prelinger of the Prelinger
Archives for
digging up, dusting off and eventually digitizing
the film, "Working
and Playing to Health", directed
by Willard Van Dyke and filmed on location
at Manteno State Hospital in 1953.
The
wonderful people at the Illinois
Veteran's Home Manteno who
were so helpful and gracious. I sincerely
appreciate all your assistance and support.
The
people at the Ryerson
and Burnham Archives, at the Art
Institute of Chicago who
dug into their archives to find historic
images of Manteno State Hospital.
Nancy
Flannery of wpamurals.com,
for providing much needed documentation
and information about the WPA
murals of Manteno State Hospital.
Meri
Barnard
who has done extensive genealogical research
on the Barnard family history and provided
this site with information on the page,
"Barnard &
Dalstrom Poetry, Painting and Property".
Illinois
State Archives -
Springfield, IL
Illinois
State Historical Library -
Springfield, IL
and
Simmons
College Archives -
Boston, MA
For sending their archive material on Jacksonville
State Hospital.
