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.
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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