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Yep, porbably a stearilazation (sp?) unit.

looks like a light... long light... i see the smaller light - center right.. but the larger light on the top looks like its an operating room light... freaky!

if it was blood from the time the building was in use it would not look so bright.. even as it got there later i dont think it can be that bright

I too agree,beautfiul pictures!

This is a wonderful photo......... I thinks this is one of your best shots.

haha i went to that middle school

is that blood on the walls?

what building is the morgue at?

Hey is that Gary on the roof ? lol

A mental paitent named KILLian......!

Looks like the aftermath of a bloodbath burned into the bulbs. *stifles a scream*

This is a "Pictronic 500" X-ray machine manufactured by Picker X-Ray. I'm not sure the vintage, but it was definitely made before 1967 and is classified as an "antique." My guess of its date is '50s sometime. It appears to match a machine for sale at this link:

http://www.medical-equipment-classifieds.com/classifieds/view-ad-792.html

These mirrors, and the dehumanizing effect they must have had on the people who lived here, are mentioned in the Lou Chapman report you linked to on the front page of this section.

We had furniture of this same make and style in my dorm at the University of New Mexico in the early 1990s, but they were obviously very old at that time. We used to call them "Gumby chairs" and "Gumby couches."

The first Ice-O-Mat ice crusher was introduced in 1939. Evidently they were manufactured well into the 1950s when they were replaced by refrigerators with built-in ice crushers (and presumably the type of ice machines we are familiar with in hotels today). Some "retro" models are still being sold, apparently.