2,712 Comments for Fuller State School and Hospital

I haven't seen the layout of the buildings but maybe the windows have something to do with its physical location. I know morgues were in the basement many times..., then again who wouldn't want natural light in there all things considered ?

Lynne: I never thought I'd find such an indepth site ( I just found it 2 days ago! )
Your input here is so wonderful for those of us who must always know more.... Just wanted you to know your comments are appreciated :)

...just thought of it... in the early 1900s bowling was hip. Private summer cottages (big' uns, mind you)-think Newport, RI., had them too.

Looking at other facility pictures/websites and going by the history of these hospitals, bowling seems to be common...I haven't seen much other recreational areas . Maybe being under the kichen it was just for staff?

Incredibly sad.
If this is an actual baby crib, it possibly was for a child born here ( think about it)...the childs' future being dependant on the relatives or adoption services. So these babies might not have had a horrible future....
(I don't think a baby was placed in hospitals that young?)

Seems like the degree of sadness for each viewer of these images varies with the depth of their ability to feel or relate to sadness itself. Many of the viewers here seem drawn to such ample doses of dread as these. Motts, I wonder (though probably asked many times) if it is possible that there exists an image in your many collections that you find either the saddest or most disturbing, or both? I find the emotions surrounding the children's playthings to be the saddest of all.
If there is in each person a tendancy to let their soft side be known, the camera eye is your tell. Over the past several months I find I visit Opacity when I feel the need to experience the emotions I find through your camera lens. You would make a most interesting acquaintance, I think.

LOL Max,
Great movie!!!!
(assuming you are referring to "The Marathon Man")

Jill B-- Lighten up a little, lol, i'm sure the title was just a little humor.

Motts --- Then you do know who it is?

Must be some unusual cheese you're eating there tanya ^^

great shot btw

that scared my gfor a moment I thoguht it was a body in the door frame. I guess I'm just jumpy today.

As creepy as this may sound often times one would think of a crib as being more secure if one of the poele suffer an alment was childish it may have been a comfort to have the bars spereating you from the outside world.

There seem to be alot of these adult cribs in these old places. I sopose that its comforting modern places doent tend to have them.

I saw one of those in a Betty Boop cartoon. Diden't know that they actually exsited.

You also have to rember that the room may have looked diffrently when the hospital was open. they were proubly just as gloomy but I'm sure they were slightly more..well..livable when people lived in them.

It was more like know your self