| Title: | Blackwell's Island, Insane Asylum, Acute Ward | 
| Description: | View of hospital building (since destroyed except for octagonal tower, visible at left) on what is now Roosevelt Island; large rectangular lawn in foreground.  | 
		
| Date: | 1892 | 
| Location: | Roosevelt Island (New York, N.Y.) [2] | 
		
| Creator: | Wilcox, Julius. | 
| More Details: | 
				Date from WILC 0017, title page of photograph album containing original images. Original cyanotype image has number: 98.d. Title from inscription below image on recto.  | 
		
| Collection: | Julius Wilcox [3]						
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| Subject: | 
			
				Psychiatric hospitals [4] Lost architecture [5]  | 
		
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. | 
| Medium: | 
				Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints.  | 
		
| Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library | 
		
| ID: | WILC 0031 | 
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/b02531c61bb26c3bba4c0af33769490d&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Roosevelt+Island+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Julius+Wilcox
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/p/Psychiatric hospitals
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/l/Lost architecture