Caption

Canton, South Dakota - Remembrances left at a marker listing the names of 120 patients at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians who are buried in unmarked graves. Not all inmates of the federal facility, which closed in 1934, were insane. The cemetery is now surrounded by the Hiawatha Golf Course

Date

Oct 01, 2025

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West

Reference

BRK25L23_015

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No

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No

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Rights managed

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77,0Mb (6,2Mb) / 21,2in x 14,1in / 6355 x 4236 (300dpi)

Keywords

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