Max Bahr collection
Collection — Folder: S0049
Identifier: S0049
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a note to Mrs. Clyde Titus asking for clippings regarding his father’s compositions.
Dates
- circa 1912-1952
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Biographical Note
Max Bahr was born in 1874 in Indianapolis. After graduating from Central College of Physicians and Surgeons he took post-graduate work at the University of Berlin, where he graduated as a doctor of psychological medicine in 1908. In 1912 he married Wilhelmina Helwig in Indianapolis, where they lived. Bahr is best known for his work as
the superintendent of Central State Hospital. He began working there in 1898, and was appointed superintendent in 1923. Bahr held other posts as well within the psychiatric field, including an appointment as a consultant on the board of examiners of the United States penitentiary in Terre Haute, a professorship with the Indiana University School of Medicine Psychiatrics Department, and president of the Indianapolis Medical Society. Bahr was instrumental in de-stigmatizing the mentally ill (e.g. in 1927, changing the name of Central Indiana Hospital for Insane to Central State Hospital). In March, 1952 Bahr retired from Central State Hospital; he died of a heart attack in December of the same year.
Source: Indiana State Library. Indiana Biography Series. Vol. 21. 35, 63., Vol. 31. 32-3; Vol. 39. 94, 117.
Source: Indiana State Library. Indiana Biography Series. Vol. 21. 35, 63., Vol. 31. 32-3; Vol. 39. 94, 117.
Extent
0.01 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection includes one item.
Custodial History
This collection was received by Rare Books and Manuscripts as a donation.
Accruals
No further additions are expected.
Processing Information
Collection processing and finding aid completed by Benjamin Clark during September 2005. Finding aid revised by Edythe Huffman on 2015/11/09. EAD finding aid completed by Bethany Fiechter on 2018/05/02.
Creator
- Title
- Max Bahr collection
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Repository
Contact:
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A.
317-232-3671
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A.
317-232-3671
