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a very open airy and altogether tidy room, very pleasant...

I wonder if (and how many) of the workers would be considered underage, or were children? I think usually the younger workers got the worst jobs - at least in the U.S. that's how it used to be before labor laws changed that...

looks like ink. its well drawn despite being unfinished.

A quick search on Yahoo (for "AFD valve") leads me to think that it's just a diversion valve - probably for pressure reduction in the system (or possibly for testing the product at various stages of production).

There's something very peaceful and zen-like about the repetitive copper tubings' loops and the circular pieces.

The fact that there are a few of these and the way they look ("cut off" by the floor), makes me think of an engine - specifically the valves and valve stems (as if they were suspended from the ceiling).

Non-heat conducting? Heat (thermally) diffusive?

Almost like a steam-punk MRI machine...

I love this one.

This is gorgeous - puts me in mind of some of the first colored photographs (from the French, I believe) from World War I.

I can't even imagine what living in a house like this would be like. It's too bad that there aren't any photos or paintings of it when it was used as a home, with the morning sun pouring through those windows...*sigh*

ITS very very sad to see this building in such poor condition. I hope someday this buildings renovated and turned into a hotel.

oh, sorry, I do not remember you. You must be as glad as I am thought that it is closed now.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo' Nest was filmed at the Oregon State Mental Hospital in Salem, Oregon. Just last month, that building complex was slated for demolition and replacement.

I'd open it - I think anything contagious would be long dead without its live host. Besides, even if there were something (somehow) still contagious, chances are it could be treated these days (if you're not already vaccinated against it)