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Xray Dept

Xray Dept

The x-ray department in this hospital was huge; some bases of old machinery were still laying around. I wonder how long these things have been rusting away if the hospital ceased treating TB patients so close to opening, if at all.

This object in the foreground looks like it might have been a table you lay down on with the imaging device on the arm above; in the back of the room appears to be a chest x-ray.
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My co-workers and I both agree that it looks like an old "Bucky" table.
Jamieson
Fri 08-29-2008
Love the low light in this one!
JAVA
Fri 08-29-2008
It looks like a kind of bath tub I would never use.
C-Note
Fri 08-29-2008
looks like you would get TB just from this machine alone
Joe
Fri 08-29-2008
Motts, The device in the foreground was not an X-RAY table, It was in fact was a tank Used to develope the X_RAYS.
~FORGOTTEN~LEGACY~
Fri 08-29-2008
Addition to my last statement,
the removable tanks may have been removed.
~FORGOTTEN~LEGACY~
Fri 08-29-2008
Very creepy shot!
Tony C.
Sat 08-30-2008
Hey motts, Did you find any small square metal containers in that room.
I have a smaller X-ray tank from 1902, that I use to develope my photographs, it looks remarkably similar.
~FORGOTTEN~LEGACY~
Sun 08-31-2008
Interesting but old x-ray equipment. Plus this room looks bad too.....well it has been sitting empty for sometime now......
blue lamp
Sun 08-31-2008
...and more of those horrible, depressing tiles. Wonderful shot.
Clarabelle
Tue 09-02-2008
that is something i would never lay on if you even paid me.....creepy
Cera
Wed 09-03-2008
looks like a sarcophagus.
Caro
Tue 09-16-2008
Wow, that thing is archaic! Neat angle, almost looks like it was dropped on top of already decayed debris.
Barbara
Tue 09-16-2008
You have a really wonderful job. I love your camera and your perspective of shots. You are a true artist.
Sarah
Wed 10-15-2008
this looks like the worst room in the place, it's the most decayed.
Kristiara
Sat 12-13-2008
Motts, I sure hope you get your tetanus shots when going through places like these.
JLL
Wed 09-01-2010
Motts, I don't mean to sound like a giggling school girl, but these galleries fascinate me to no end. What I find particularly interesting about this set is how well this facility has held up over the decades given the fact if closed in 1963.
Larry D
Sat 01-29-2011

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