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From: "James R. Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [NORCAL] State Mental Asylums/Agnews
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:39:02 -0700
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Pat,

You're on the wrong coast. San Jose Library's California Room has a
large amount of documentation on Agnews. http://www.sjlibrary.org/

I found one book, A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF AGNEWS ST. HOSP. THEN...1888
& NOW...1975, Mcconnell, Maola.
<http://mill1.sjlibrary.org/search/aMcconnell%2C+Maola./amcconnell+maola/-3,-1,0,B/browse>;
There's a 30 page essay that you might be able to get copied: Agnews
Developmental Center : from past to present
<http://mill1.sjlibrary.org/search/Xagnews&searchscope=1&SORT=A/Xagnews&searchscope=1&SORT=A&SUBKEY=agnews/1%2C10%2C10%2CB/frameset&FF=Xagnews&searchscope=1&SORT=A&2%2C2%2C>;
/ by Michelle Johnson. 30 leaves : map ; Call Number(s): REF CAL
362.21 Johnson.

The former Agnews grounds now contain a shopping center as well as
campuses for Sun Microsystems and Cisco.

Hope this helps,
Jim

Pat and Kevan wrote:

>Marge - There's a whole library of books that couldl be written about the asylums. Thanks for the stories.
>
>What about Agnews? I've found family on both sides (explains one or two things!) who were in Agnews at census-taking time. One died of tb shortly after. Was Agnews always just a mental hospital, or did it have other wards?
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>Can anyone recommend a book on Agnews?
>
>Pat.
>Maine
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