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I don't think those are large necklaces, I think it's trim on the dresses themselves, which would be in keeping with period these were taken. It just looks like a necklace, espcially in the photo on the right, because she is wearing something around her neck, but I think it's tucked into her dress. I don't see a chain at all in the photo on the left.

loll I'm in my final year of high school and luckily never had to endure the horror of those chairs :P But it's neat to hear all your detailed explanations, I'm really into history so I'm always interested in what it really felt like to be back in that time.

wow it's amazingg. I'm just speechless at imagining that this was a full thriving place with people walking up and down the stairs living normal daily lives without knowing the fate of this place. So many peoples' memories are in there. :)

Hey Motts! What kind of IR filter do you use? have you taken the IR filter off of the CCD? Absolutely breathtaking photography!

this looks to be from the 40's or 50's

What you have to keep in mind about PSH is that back in the 1950s and 1960s, when most of the surrounding architecture was brand new development homes, this was the biggest architectural feature of western Suffolk, looming over the landscape for miles.
It was spooky at night and especially at Halloween, but rather than eerie, it was appallingly dreary -- you could sense all the unwell (and desperately unhappy) people who had ever been there.
And a mental institution should NEVER be designed to look like a fortress prison. Especially one named for a Pilgrim, someone journeying to a holy place. (Besides, Pilgrims are Mass., not NY social myths.)
Just look at the enlightened "therapies" they performed. You're not officially allowed to do any of that to a prisoner of war nowadays.
Like so many of its companion "hospitals" in Suffolk, it deserves to be closed, and razed.
Maybe something healthy and good can grow there now.

Here she is new.
http://www.history.nav...n/usnsh-p/pc1264.htm

I see Ethel too! Is it carved onto the ceiling or something? It just kinda 'leaps' out at you after a few seconds...that's disturbing!

J-131274: What Motts means here is that the photo was shot using infrared film and an infrared filter on the lens. I don't know if you could call that an "effect," because the camera is only capturing wavelengths the human eye can't perceive, which the film then translates into shades of gray that we can see. On the other hand, "effects" that modern digital cameras do take the visible light captured by the camera and process that data to create the desired effect.

I think what you're asking for is a shot on black and white or color film for comparison, which would have required changing film types, removing the filter, and then setting the camera back up to take the exact same shot. Unless Motts did that, there's no picture existing with "no effects" as in "what the human eye would see".

I hope that makes sense!

What's that against the window? It looks like sand

supposedly there is a homeless man who sleeps in that hole, but I doubt it. I wonder if it is even stable.

wiccan1 I have read quite a few of your comments, and personally, i think an attention craver like yourself should refrain from posting on a site like this. I never heard rumors of a coven nor see a man with a gun, and advertising that you are a warlock is a stupid mistake. If you you were truly a wiccan, you would know we don't advertise.

I've been in this very spot. The tunnels are full of moisture, and there were even some collapsed tunnels. If you look at the ceilling just at the top of the picture you can see a sort of black mold growing. lovely.

That is an amazing photo. Like a tiny dinosaur in a file-cabinet.

The Cemetery is intact and being maintained by Avalon Bay. At least that was/is the agreement.