Naturally, it flatters them and portrays their patients as helpless, passive recipients of their care.

Note the hearts in the border of this page. Labeled people are recipients of faux love, whether they like it or not.

More hearts here, especially ironic when used with photos of involuntary servitude. No doubt "special supervision" was required, but it's hard to imagine that the supervisors wore such tidy clothing in the sweaty environs of steam mangles.

Here are the only co-educational shots in the batch; female occupational therapists are serving as "hostesses" on the male wards once a week. Note that heart designs are absent on this page.

This beautiful photograph, like most photos inset in this brochure, was probably taken by a professional photographer. One might wonder what was being controlled in the "radio control room."

"Graded exercise" seems to consist of digging holes. "An outside group" means that the group was made up of trustees, inmates allowed to go outdoors — under close supervision.

Once again, the occupational therapists play up the glamour of being a patient. This one is allowed to socialize with staff in their cafeteria. You can bet that the patient cafeteria was far different.

What the occupational therapists call "industrial work" was meant to be training for the patients so that they might one day take their place as workers in the sculleries (basements) of grand hotel dining rooms.

Again, patients must make themselves useful. Many early institution-builders imagined that institutions would one day be self-sufficient, costing taxpayers nothing at all thanks to their farms and factories.

"Women are working for the nursery, sewing layettes…" Again, it is tempting to wonder why an institution where the inmates are rigorously separated from the opposite sex would require the patients to knit afghans for infants' cribs — crib in the plural.

And here it is, on the last page of the O.T. scrapbook: the Nursery. Three infants are shown here. Some institutions showed year-end statistics with as many births as deaths, a surprisingly high number.