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At the time these showers were built, many public schools had rudimentary showers or were installing spartan group showers. Public hygeine overruled privacy concerns, especially for boys who were going to be of draft age anyway and would end up in military style accomodations. No big deal.

Tagging up an old morgue is just whistling past the graveyard. There's a drawer waiting somewhere for that tagger, for that very special day.

beautiful verdigris.

Were those lights buzzing?

Totally Ansel Adams!

That door's a classic. They don't make them like that anymore!

I'm going to wear myself out remarking about these stunning shots..another stunner, like the last ones...like the ones to follow!

Damn, what a fine shot!

Asylums and prisons were two similar strands of the same DNA of social control. Read your Michel Foucault.

A solarium with barred windows and so little light. What a profoundly depressing space.

State laws require embalming, except for certain religious groups which bury their dead within 48 hrs. Who knows if anyone bothered to embalm these unfortunates? When everything was done 'in house', the odds are that corners got cut and the dead just got plunked down on a layer of cheap, absorbent straw.

An "accident" occurs, you quickly and quietly whisk the memory of it away, throw it in a box, and bury it out back. No different than many prisons of the period. Had cremation been a more common practice then, nobody would know where the ashes went or who they once were.

Brings back interesting memories from nursing school many many years ago (Hi Danny long time since we were in this room - we were young men just getting ready to start our careers - now I'm retiring! Unbelievable how fast this time went by - Our school closed 31 years ago!)
Love the photos!

This pic is AWESOME.....really good shot!!!

its Called a Stokes basket we use them in mine rescue they are more heavy duty then standard gurneys