The link below is a source I found that is a 1890 biennial report of the Illness State Hospital of the insane in Jacksonville. This text offers a in-depth view of a mental institution of the late 1800s from an administrative perspective. With this class covering the rise of asylums and their methods of treatment and eventual abandonment. This text can show us how even by the 1890s that the various stereotypes that one thinks of when they hear asylum were already falling into place.
https://archive.org/details/biennialreportof2218illi/mode/2up
