Shenendoah Valley - Owen

Shenandoah Valley corner card to Miss Jennie Owen, Care of Dr. H. W. Harlow at the Maine (Insane) Hospital in Augusta, Maine.


Usage Date: January 8, (1865?)
Usage Location: Harpers Ferry, VA

Recipient: Miss Jennie Owen

While identity of the recipient, Jennie Owen, is unclear, Dr. Henry Mills Harlow was the long-time leader of the Maine Hospital (also known as the Maine Insane Hospital at the time) which was a psychiatric hospital for mental illness.  It is likely that Jennie Owen may have been a patient there.


Author: unknown

Maine Hospital

 

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