From a caption with the photographs: "Typical bed in "B" building.  The old, soiled mattress is worn through. Often the patients prefer sleeping on the floor to sleeping on such a mattress, which provides little protection against the bed spring."

From a caption with the photographs:  "Never-before-photographed scene in the "C" building at Byberry, where almost all the men go about naked year in and year out. Most of these 300 patients have no clothes whatever.  There are only a few benches for them. The two at the left here are sitting on the only tables in the room.  The men are never allowed out into thei exericse [sic] yard because they have no clothes. They are clad this way in winter as in summer."

All photographs:

1934-1940

Photographs

Philadelphia Record photograph Morgue Collection No. V7, Folder 2787

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