48 Comments Posted by cecilia

This gallery alone is the best tribute anyone could wish for.Giving other people the opportunity to snoop in the belongings of others isn't a tribute.So I think Mott's right not to display them.

would make a neat wallpaper..the colors and angle are just awesome

I second that...great shot.

*shivers*

They left the soap...

Probably 50's even

wow,the colors...it's an absolutely marvellous picture.Should make an excellent album cover or something.

gives me the creeps,I can't pinpoint the reason,but I think you understand...nice zooming.

How perfectly barbaric.

The evil clown from "It".

Incredibly disrespectful to leave records scattered and lying around like this...don't know how old these papers are but some of the people mentioned in them might be alive!

Could very well be the gateway to hell...

Particularly the 50`s strikes me as a fascist decade sometimes,nothing was allowed to flaw the "perfect" facade,which I guess was one of the reasons parents left their children at horror places like Pennhurst.I hope we have learned something since then.

Looks like a nightmare corridor from some horror video game.

As Pjrichard asks,I wonder too why they leave all the inventories behind.It's,in a way,disrespectful,at least if patient's names are still present on records.Here in Europe,modern ruins are rare(abandoned building are torn down),so this is fairly new to me,even if I have been looking around for ruins here to photograph.Fascinating and important pieces of modern history,but very tragic.
I must compliment Mott too for great pictures and a respecful approach.