A staff meeting at Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa, including a patient, left, being treated for a mental health condition. The hospital, founded as Alabama Insane Hospital, practiced an innovative patient-work program to fund itself and ease people back into their normal lives.
Bryce Hospital Staff Meeting
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Courtesy of the W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama Libraries
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