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.
The Enola Gay Hangar
This hangar at the Wendover Air Field in Wendover, Utah was once home to the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomber responsible for deploying the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
(From the 2008 archives.)
Photo: "California's Past"
A train passes behind a group of buses at Northern California bus maintenance yard.
Night. Full moon. 90 seconds. Lit by moonlight.
Photo: "Chalked"
In one of the day rooms at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania sits a lonely pool table. The cues were stacked on the rack and the chalk left next to the score counter, as though the game was played yesterday, but the paint chips covering the table tell a different story.
Photo: "Rounded Rust"
Wooden wheelchair in the basement of the tuberculosis ward at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania.