Portrait of Charles Henry Nichols (1820-1889)
Smithsonian Archives

Portrait of Charles Henry Nichols (1820-1889)

Ulke Bros · 1872

Cartes-de-visite (card photographs);
Smithsonian Institution Archives
CC0 — Public Domain
Smithsonian Archives

U.S. physician; Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington DC, later known as St Elizabeths Hospital, until 1877 when he became superintendent at the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, New York City; Acting assistant surgeon during the U.S. Civil War; President of the Association of American Superintendents of Institutions for the Insane.

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