6/11/13

THE REMAINS OF THEIR DAY


pictures of suitcases left in a New York insane asylum by patients who were locked away for the rest of their lives

  • Photographer Jon Crispin has been documenting the suitcases left behind by patients at the Willard Asylum for the Insane in Upstate New York
  • 400 suitcases were found in an attic at the asylum in 1995. They date from 1910 to 1960
  • Many of the patients who went to the asylum died there and were buried in graves marked not with names, but by numbers. 

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The Willard Asylum for the Insane operated from the 1800s until 1995 - housing untold thousands of patients, many for the rest of their lives. It currently houses a drug rehabilitation program for convicts

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