Edna Larrabee: Pathologizing Homosexuality at the Shakopee State Reformatory for Women and St. Peter State Hospital

By Sarah Pawlicki and Lizzie Ehrenhalt
Written By Sarah Pawlicki

Edna considered herself to be “a true homosexual.”

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Newspaper clipping portrait of Edna Larrabee. Larrabee is wearing a dark collared shirt. Edna is a white person with short brown hair, a full oval-shaped face, well-defined eyebrows, and brown eyes. She is smiling slightly in the photograph.
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