[Last updated 3/3/17]

Note: Not all items have been digitized.

I. MINUTES

1. CSH board minutes (1870-1937)
2. State hospital board minutes, letters, and memos (1939, 1943, 1954-1986)
3. Local Building Committee (1963-67)
4. State hospital board photographs (1909, 1995)

II. ANNUAL REPORTS

1. State Hospital Board, Mental Hygiene & Hospitals (1911, 1914, 1918-19, 1938-46, 1951-57, 1959-61, 1965-71, 1978-79, 1986)
2. VA mental hospitals (1961-63, 1965-72) CSH (1880-1910, 1912-23, 1925-54, 1956, 1958-81)
3.  Statistical Annual Report of the VA State Department of Health (1962-64)
4. CSH Statistical Reports (1923-1976)

III. MANUALS OF PRACTICES, PROCEDURES, AND PROGRAMS

1. Transorbital Lobotomy (1954)
2. State Hospital Board Rules and Regulations (1905, 1955, 1977)
3. VA mental institutions (1957-58, 1965, 1972, 1980-82)
4. CSH instruction manuals (1955-56, 1960, 1964-92, 2002)
5. CSH treatment programs (1980-84)
6. Revised formulary (1972, 1991)

IV. FINANCES

1. Deeds (1882-1958)
2. Ledger (1923-34, 1950-54, 1924-45)
3. Financial reports (1941-80)

V. PATIENT REGISTERS

1. Records of Application and Admission (1868-1990)
2. Ward books (1924-1957)
3. Indexes (1930s-1940s)
4. Returns, furloughs, discharged, escaped, deaths (1923-69)
5. Correspondence (1926-45)
6. Census (1939-1990)
7. Individual patient files

VI. IMAGES

1. Buildings (1885-1998, n.d.)
2. Staff (1908-1998, n.d.)
3. Patients, activities, and procedures (1904-1981, n.d.)
4. Slides (n.d.)
5. Negatives (n.d.)
6. Reproductions (n.d.)
7. Panoramas (1960-1962, n.d.)

VII. CENTRAL STATE HISTORY

1. Centennial (1969)
2. Reports, brochures, and handbooks (1958-59, 1961-62, 1965, 1967-71, 1975-76, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1995, 2010)
3. Patient library (1974, 1983, 1985, 1989)
4. Dr. William F. Drewry (n.d.)
5. Guest book (1960-1982)
6. Placards (n.d.)

VIII. NEWSLETTERS

1. The Central State Hospital Observer (1967-74): CSH staff newsletter
2. C.S.H. Observer (1976-77): CSH staff newsletter
3. CSH News Update (1979-1999): CSH staff newsletter
4. CSH News Update planning (1978-80, 1982):
5. Mental Health News (1970-71); Advance Notice, 1979: VA Mental Hygiene and Hospitals/VA Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
6. The Correspondent newsletter (1958-68): national staff newsletter

IX. CLIPPINGS
X. MONOGRAPHS
XI. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS