Patient bed at dawn inside the Forst building of a former New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital.
Photo: "Aqua"
Big M Automotive in Williams, CA.
(Night. Full moon. 50 seconds. Lit by incandescent and LED flashlights.)
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Galt Building, patient building, at Norwich State Hospital.
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Porch. Brigham building, Norwich State Hospital.
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Mesquite dunes at sunrise, Death Valley.
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This state hospital opened in 1868 as a partially completed public mental health hospital. It was constructed under the Kirkbride plan with one main building placing administration in the center and patient wings on either side. By the time the hospital was completed in 1874 it was already experiencing overcrowding and though much construction was done over the next few years, the hospital remained overcrowded well into the early 1900's. Noble Hall, the hospital's theatre was designed by William D. Johnson and constructed in 1908 in the Colonial Revival Style. This 830 seat theatre was two stories tall, containted central projector pavillion houses and three arched entrances.
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Sun streams into a former patient room of the male wards at Hudson River State Hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Twilight inside the Forst Ward inside the first public run New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital.
During the early 1900's, medical director Henry Cotton believed that mental illness was the cause of infections within the body, leading him to implement the removal of teeth and other organs of patients in an attempt to find a cure. Over the course of his 27 years at Trenton, hundreds of patients became mutilated and even deceased due to his theories.
Photo: "Titanic's Lounge"
Male wards at Hudson River State Hospital, a mid-1800 era psychiatric hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York.
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Big M Automotive. Williams, CA.
(Night. Full moon. 180 seconds. Lit by moonlight, incandescent and LED flashlight.)
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Bathtub inside the Brigham building at Norwich State Hospital.
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Patient hallway inside Building 30, dating to the 1890's, at a State Hospital in Virginia.
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Just before dawn at Zabriskie Point, Death Valley.
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Light painting on the Racetrack in Death Valley.
Photo: "Mangled"
Big M Automotive. Williams, CA.
(Night. Full moon. 240 seconds. Lit by moonlight and LED flashlight.)