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Danvers State Hospital 1952 ( photos from negs found in the kirkbride ) < on 6/10/2014 2:25 AM > | Reply with Quote
Long before the hospital was turned into condo's we found a pile of negs in the admin of the kirkbride, at the time I was dating a girl who was taking a photography class in college and had the teacher develop the prints for us, Every year from 1910 till 1963 the hospital hosted a sort of carnival on the grounds for staff, patients and visitors, these are a set of timeless shots from a 1952 carnival
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Re: Danvers State Hospital 1952 ( photos from negs found in the kirkbride ) < Reply # 7 on 6/10/2014 1:47 PM > | Reply with Quote
These are so cool. I'm sure this carnival meant a lot to the patients, who probably didn't find much joy in their surroundings the rest of the year. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Danvers State Hospital 1952 ( photos from negs found in the kirkbride ) < Reply # 9 on 6/10/2014 6:48 PM > | Reply with Quote
Awesome find and a good thing you did take them. Otherwise we would have never known about this event. And considering how old they were, they sure did come out great.
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Re: Danvers State Hospital 1952 ( photos from negs found in the kirkbride ) < Reply # 10 on 6/10/2014 9:34 PM > | Reply with Quote
Still sad I never got to see her IRL. At least we have pictures to remind us.
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Re: Danvers State Hospital 1952 ( photos from negs found in the kirkbride ) < Reply # 11 on 6/10/2014 11:06 PM > | Reply with Quote
IN-FUCKING-CREDIBLE, bro! Holy shit!
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Re: Danvers State Hospital 1952 ( photos from negs found in the kirkbride ) < Reply # 16 on 6/19/2014 3:59 AM > | Reply with Quote
Wow, at the risk of being too repetitive, that is a badass find. Effin awesome, and lucky you ran across them. I was trying to explain to someone how fucking horrible the conditions at one of those places had to be on the patients and I was trying to just find pics of the hospital, but ran across these. Wild.
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Re: Danvers State Hospital 1952 ( photos from negs found in the kirkbride ) < Reply # 18 on 6/24/2014 12:09 PM > | Reply with Quote
Thank you for sharing. This is a slice of history I hadn't known about. What a grand old place... people don't seem to care much anymore about building things of beauty that are meant to last. And is that a petting zoo? (Not sure why I find it so bizarre and incongruous.)