I found this painting, possibly done by a patient, on a wall in a first floor day room of the North Annex at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania. The windows opposite this painting look out towards the other buildings on campus. From here one could see the the tubercular wards.
Photo: "Alameda's Ready Reserve Fleet"
The Ready Reserve Fleet under a full moon in Alameda, California.
Photo: "DeJarnette Building"
For almost fourty years (1905-1943), Joseph DeJarnette was the director of this hospital. Throughout his time there, he was sterilizing patients because of his theories on eugenics. Those same theories have been cited as the major influence behind the Nazi "Euthanasia programme," which called for the murder of those were who "incurably sick."
This building at a Virginia State Hospital was constructed in 1913 and designed to house noisy patients. It was eventually named after the former superintendent some years later.
Photo: "T, the T-Rex"
This is T.
He's a T-Rex.
He lives in Cabazon, California.
At night, his mouth glows red from all the people prey he devoured that day.
Photo: "A to Z"
The first floor landing of the main staircase in the administration building of the North Annex at Mayview State Hospital.
Photo: "Connector Arch"
While the archway in the wings of the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum appear to be part of the original architecture, in the shadows, one can see a metal roll-up door, likely an addition made to comply with fire codes, to separate the outer wings from the more central wings in the event of a fire.
Photo: "Weeping"
Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania closed in December 2008 after being in operation for over 100 years. At the time of the closure, under 40 patients remained, a drastic difference from the 4,000 patients that called Mayview home at the hospital's peak in the 1930's.
The North Annex building, shown here, was one of the last buildings on the campus to shut down.
Photo: "Purple Cherry"
Floor of patient rooms inside a Virginia State asylum.
Photo: "Obligatory"
San Francisco Bay Bridge from Yerba Buena Island during blue hour.
Photo: "Painted Brick"
Blue hour in a front facing room inside the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, constructed in 1828.
Though not actually a Kirkbride, this asylum was constructed in a similar fashion, with male and female wards sprawling out from a central administration building.
Photo: "Field Supplies"
Medical supply cabinet inside a former U.S. Marine Hospital in Tennessee.
Photo: "Beacons"
First floor room in the main building of a U.S. Marine Hospital in Tennessee, constructed in 1937, after the original hospital was demolished to make way for a new updated one.
Photo: "Operator"
Last night I returned from a week long road trip in the South. I'm just starting to download the photos from the trip, so for now, here's an image from a Northern California bus yard taken last month. This is a 90 second exposure, taken at night, lit with an LED panel and flashlight.
Photo: "Watch"
Upper floor of a former Virginia State Hospital, which was repurposed as a medium-security men's correctional facility in the 1980's.
During operation of the correctional facility, this room was likely a multi-resource room for inmates, but when this room was part of the active hospital, this ward housed suicidal patients. This floor contained low dividing walls to give the patients a small amount of privacy, while also allowing the nurses to keep a close eye on the patients.
Photo: "Seclusion Room"
Seclusion room in the North Annex building at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania.