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American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.
Archives of the First Presbyterian Church of Manteno. Community Presbyterian Church, Manteno, IL.
Barbara Sapinsley Papers. Oskar Diethelm Library, DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY.
Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL.
Concord Public Library, Concord, NH.
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Morgan County Records. Morgan County Circuit Court. Jacksonville, IL.
Records of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane. New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH.
Shelburne Public Library, Shelburne, MA.
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PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
page 8 Used courtesy of the Packard family and Judy Domhoff Stenovich. Sourced from The Private War of Mrs. Packard by Barbara Sapinsley (New York: Paragon House, 1991)。
page 19 Used courtesy of the Packard family and Judy Domhoff Stenovich. Sourced from The Private War.
page 30 Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard’s Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity; or Three Years’ Imprisonment for Religious Belief, by the Arbitrary Will of a Husband, with an Appeal to the Government to so Change the Laws as to Afford Legal Protection to Married Women by E. P. W. Packard (Chicago, 1870), inside cover.
page 33 Modern Persecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled, as Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois, vol. 1, by E. P. W. Packard (New York, 1873), 64 (hereafter cited as MP1)。
page 36 Tenth Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Treasurer of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville (Springfield: Baker, Bailhache & Co., 1866), inside cover. Courtesy of Oskar Diethelm Library, DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts, Weill Cornell Medical College.
page 39 Table IV from Tenth Biennial Report, 20. Courtesy of Oskar Diethelm Library, DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts, Weill Cornell Medical College.
page 45 Jacksonville State Hospital Souvenir Booklet (undated)。 Sourced from “Jacksonville State Hospital” research file, courtesy of the Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, Illinois.
page 48 Photographs of Pioneers and Early Settlers of Morgan County: Vol. 1 (Morgan County Historical Society), 7. Courtesy of the Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, Illinois.
page 55 MP1, 256.
page 149 Jacksonville Mental Health and Developmental Center, “Institutional Photographic Files,” Record Series 252.021, Illinois State Archives.
page 152 Elizabeth Packard’s letter to Fidelia Fiske, March 3, 1846. Letter sourced from and used courtesy of Shelburne Free Public Library Fidelia Fiske Collection, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA.
page 183 MP1, 288.
page 305 Portrait and Biographical Record of Kankakee County, Illinois (Chicago, 1893), 209.
page 352 Mrs. Packard’s Reproof to Dr. McFarland for His Abuse of His Patients, and for Which He Called Her Hopelessly Insane (Chicago, 1864), front cover. Courtesy of Oskar Diethelm Library, DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, & the Arts, Weill Cornell Medical College.