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HGO-01-001-F-M-1
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psychiatric hospitals
institutions (buildings)
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USMA.3110.0110
Waltham (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
People with disabilities
File part
HGO-01-001-F-M-1
Originally operated as the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, the state institution was later named after its third superintendent, Walter E. Fernald.
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