Photo: "DeJarnette Building"

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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: "Weeping"

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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: "Watch"

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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.