505 Comments for Dever State School

NOT MUCH OF A PLAYGROUND!......IS THAT A SLIDE?

THE STAIN ON THE WALL KINDA LOOKS LIKE BLOOD! SCARY.....

BOTH THE LIGHT FIXTURE AND THE TUB ARE WORTH A GOOD SOME OF MONEY. I WISH THAT I COULD GET THEM!

I forgot in my first comment on this batch that this is an institution, not a regular school...it's horrible to think that children lived here, :( it's so cold...the windows are even uglier from the inside.

ewww, it looks worse than my schools did. Still, that's where a lot of the beauty is. In the ugliness.

Now, That is much better!

[batting eyelashes and blushing]

Someone who had lost or never had the strength to hold one's head upright or One that would have no ability to move anything from the neck down, hence the odfd shaped pillow to stabilize the head.

It's a stripped down tilt-in-space reclining wheelchair for people with more extensive physical disabilities, like cerebral palsy. The arm rests, foot rests, and seat have been pulled off.
http://www.henleymedical.com/manual.htm (bottom chair)
http://www.spinlife.com/critpath/match.cfm?categoryID=156 (all 5)

Lynne, no HARD feelings meant. So please stop that pouting! :) It is unbecoming of such a lovely lady as yourself.

Maybe Dayton State School had a more liberal milk policy than Linton . . .

Maybe these ones were used to make cookies, as long as they didn't impliment the dreaded "One Milk Only" rule.

What a weird wheel chair! It looks so tall and gangly...like an awkward kid hitting puberty...or something of the sort.
..That or an old wheel chair. ;)
I wonder what type of patients would have been found in these chairs?

Yaggy's idea is definatly an amusing one, but I think maybe it was more along the lines of having the children have active imaginations?
If they were pretending to be sea captains and pirates, it would stimulate their minds into learning more, and possibly destract them from the grief of being in such a place and "not being normal".
Also, playing make believe would allow them to form friendships and make them feel not as alone.
Believing is seeing, after all. Somethings need to be believed to be seen.
And there is nothing more liberating (in my opinion) than being free on the open seas, able to control your own ship vessel, than being confined in the walls of a state school.

I love this shot, Motts. The height gives it a dizzying and disorienting effect. Very effective indeed.