1,337 Comments for Middletown State Hospital

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WOW!!!!! Would just love to walk down these hallways and look in every room!
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Fantastic picture!!! Has anyone ever heard of "If you can't say anything nice about anybody, don't say anything at all?" I think every single picture you take is fantastic, Motts. There always has to be somebody out there that always thinks they know a little bit more than anybody else.
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Post death photography was most popular during the Victorian era. It was one of the ways that some families said good bye to their loved ones, and for some poorer families it was the only portrait ever taken of their loved ones. While it was more popular to take the picture while the deceased was laying in state, it's not uncommon to find one from time to time where they tried to make the person look alive by propping them up and posing the body.

http://ame2.asu.edu/pr...20the%20dead/131.jpg

Look at the above picture and read the comments around it. It says that the picture was taken 9 days after death, and that her mother couldn't part with her only daughter. Oh... keep in mind that this was well before modern refrigeration.
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Looking at these pictures, I also picture the activity that once happened there; the patients, the nurses, the doctors. It's really sad and I never realized there were so many insane asylums around like this. I guess years and years ago they didn't really know a whole lot how to treat you, either, not like today with our modern medicine. Those poor poor people.
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Who was depressed?
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Beautiful picture! But I still can certainly understand why these people were depressed.
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Boy, you guys really have wild imaginations!!
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The same question I've been asking over and over again, what happened to all these people?
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CAN YOU WONDER WHY THESE PEOPLE WERE DEPRESSED?!?!?!?
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Beautiful room! It's a shame everything's laying around and rotting.
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For some reason, years ago people DID take pictures of the deceased in coffins. One of my neighbors had her mother's picture hanging in her living room with her mother laying in a casket. Why, on earth would you want to remember someone like that and look at it everyday?
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STILL ACTIVE!!!!!!! Hope the buildings aren't near these! I think keeping people at these places probably made them worse. They're so dreary looking. So depressing!
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Murph,

From the "About" page on this site:

"All photographs are from digital cameras; most are from a Canon 300D Rebel, some of the older photos and infrared shots were taken with a Sony F-707. I retouch the brightness and contrast and sometimes the color in post processing (as most are RAW files)."
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o and btw.....what type of camera do you use.....cause i also like to explore some places but even during the day time its hard for the camera to catch certain things.......because its not bright enough in the lens but it is in the human eye.....the flash doesnt help either sometimes....so i was just wonderin if u would care to share your wonderful secret
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this picture is so amazing it almost looks fake....what a great shot motts