Interior of the State Hospital in Morganton, N.C. : the amusement hall at Christmas time
- Title
- Interior of the State Hospital in Morganton, N.C. : the amusement hall at Christmas time
- Description
- The amusement hall at the State Hospital in Morganton, N.C. View is from the back of the room showing the stage and rows of chairs. The ceiling and walls are decorated with greenery and a banner hung over the stage reads "Merry Christmas." Title and date from handwritten note on verso.
- Date
- 1890
- Original Format
- photographs
- Extent
- 26cm x 20cm
- Local Identifier
- 0160-s1-b9-fe-i35
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- Spatial
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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Interior of the State Hospital in Morganton, N.C. : the amusement hall at Christmas time
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- Elias Carr Papers from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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This was known as "Asylum Hall" at the time. The space is now used as a class room for the hospital's Staff Development Department (the vaulted ceiling has been closed). This area was cited as being unsafe around 1900, and the "new" amusement hall was built to replace this area around 1905.