Sources
Primary Sources: Newspapers
The CV Weekly
The Glendale News-Press
The Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Record
The Patton Progress
Primary Sources: Government Records
United States Census Bureau, Federal Census of 1930.
United States Census Bureau, Federal Census of 1940.
United States Census Bureau, Federal Census of 1950.
Primary Sources: Archival Collections
Archive, Friends of Rockhaven, La Crescenta, California
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Letter of Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District Listing in the National Register of Historic Places, Los Angeles County Files, Los Angeles California, Accessed November 30, 2024, https://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/108190.pdf,4.
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Loyola Marymount University Digital Collections
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California State Library Digital Collections
Secondary Sources
“A Legacy of Care”, Barlow Respiratory Hospital, n.p., n.d., accessed November 25, 2025 https://www.barlowhospital.org/documents/Timeline-Barlow-Respitory-Hospital-History-2022.PDF
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Architectural Resources Group, Inc., and KornRandolph - Landscape Architects. Rep. Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic Resource and Conditions Assessment - DRAFT. Pasadena, CA, 2009.
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California, State of. Department of State Hospitals (DSH) - Metropolitan: Home. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://www.dsh.ca.gov/Metropolitan/.
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California, State of. Rockhaven Sanitarium Historic District Listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Sacramento, CA: Office of Historic Preservation Department of Parks and Recreation, 2016.
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“Early Views of Glendale,” Water and Power Associates, accessed November 25, 2024, https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Glendale_1_of_2.html.
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Eisner, Hal, Hunter Lowry, and Joanna Linkchorst. “In Depth: Rockhaven Sanitarium.” Other. Fox 11, January 22, 2023.
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Gale, Sadie. “The History of Sanatoriums and Surveillance.” Wellcome Collection, 2022.
https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/the-history-of-sanatoriums-and-surveillance.
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Gardner, Vicki. Rockhaven: A Sanctuary from Glendale’s Past. Internet Archive, 2013. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://archive.org/details/cogdca-Rockhaven_-_A_Sanctuary_from_Glendale_s_Past.
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“History of Psychiatric Hospitals.” Nursing, History, and Health Care, Penn Nursing. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/nurses-institutions-caring/history-of-psychiatric-hospitals/.
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Mears, Hadley. “‘The Insane Asylum’: The First Twenty Years of Patton State Hospital,” PBS SoCal, 2017, Accessed November 25, 2025, https://www.pbssocal.org/history-society/the-insane-asylum-the-first-twenty-years-of-patton-state-hopital.
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Jordan, Elisa. Rockhaven Sanitarium: The Legacy of Agnes Richards. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2018.
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Wallis, Eileen V. California and the Politics of Disability, 1850-1930. New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.
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Widdoes, Adriana. "Rockhaven: L.A.'s First Feminist Sanitarium." PBS Departures. Accessed November 25, 2024. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/departures/rockhaven-l-a-s-first-feminist-sanitarium.
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Trinh, Jean. “The History and Uncertain Future of the Former Sanitarium to the Stars (Photos).” LAist. Last modified June 25, 2018. Accessed December 8, 2024. https://laist.com/news/entertainment/rockhaven-sanitarium.