What's in Your Bag?

A collection of suitcases from patients at the Willard Asylum in the 1910s- 1960s gives us insight into individuals from the past. A highly stigmatized faction of society now memorialized in photographs in the New York State Museum’s permanent collection, read this interview with photographer Jon Crispin. 

 

A collection of suitcases from patients at the Willard Asylum in the 1910s- 1960s gives us insight into individuals from the past. A highly stigmatized faction of society now memorialized in photographs in the New York State Museum’s permanent collection, read this interview with photographer Jon Crispin.