Mendocino State Hospital, postcard (ca. 1910).*

"State Hospital for Insane, Ukiah." A nice false-colored postcard of Mendocino State Hospital from the first few decades of the twentieth century. I'm not sure why so many photographs of Mendocino are taken from a distance and obscured by trees (it may be that they just had a lot of trees). I like this one because it gives you a good sense of the surrounding environs—many state institutions of this era were built in quite rural locations, as the land was cheap and there were less people to be worried about periodic escapes of "patients".

Scanned by myself from an original postcard.