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[LeGaCyGiAnT124]

Instead of posting photos of the asylums/hospitals/mansions/hotels/ ect, why not post pictures of when they were in operation? See what everyone can come up with. From browsing the net, I will start with Mayview State Hospital in Bridgeville, PA. These are not my photos, so I don't take any of the credit. I just find it very interesting seeing 100 year old photos and thinking of how they ran such places with the technology they had at that time.

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?xc=1&g=allimages&xg=1&type=boolean&rgn1=ic_all&view=thumbnail&q1=Mayview&Go=Go

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?q1=Mayview&rgn1=ic_all&op2=And&q2=MSP%2B301&rgn2=hpichswp_ci&type=boolean&med=1&view=thumbnail&c=hpichswp&imgsrc=rauh&imgsrctxt=Richard+E.+Rauh+Photographs+


I have photos of Dixmont I will have to post when I get home from work. I am glad I saved the photos from another website before it got shut down.

A video I discovered of Dixmont just today! http://www.wqed.org/tv/watch/onq/?id=806

[TootUncommon]

The video was outstanding.  I really enjoyed that.  And the photos - seeing the buildings in use before abandonment took its toll.  Thank you for posting this.

[ravenna752]

Always love seeing these especially if there are nurses in the pictures.   Reminds me of how far we have come.