This website might give you some pointers on who to contact.

https://soc.as.uky.edu/uk-archaeologists-excavate-eastern-state-hospital-0


> Hello all,
> 
> I'm a graduate student and bioarchaeologist interested in processes 
> of institutionalization in the 19th century, and I'm currently 
> looking for available skeletal assemblages for my dissertation 
> research. I'm interested in hearing about any collections from 
> institutional contexts (prison, almshouse, asylums) where a 
> significant portion of the individuals under care were engaged in 
> labor, whether that is labor therapy, convict leases, or to pay off 
> their debts. So far I'm aware of the Virginia Penitentiary 
> collection housed at the Smithsonian and the Oneida Asylum 
> assemblage as two examples. I'm most interested in east coast 
> remains from the mid 19th to early 20th century, and smaller 
> collections that could be analyzed without employing an extensive sampling strategy.
> If you know of any collections that match some or all of these 
> criteria, I'd love to hear from you.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> Ellen Chapman
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> Department of Anthropology
> College of William and Mary
> MSc, Durham University
> 
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