{"id":71,"date":"2008-05-09T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-07-04T14:50:59","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T18:50:59","slug":"even-more-historical-photo-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/even-more-historical-photo-goodness","title":{"rendered":"Even More Historical Photo Goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised in my last post<\/a>, here’s another collection of links to old photographs of Kirkbride asylums. There aren’t as many left for me to share as I thought. I really should have just thrown these in with the last bunch, but oh well…<\/p>\n

To start things off, here are some images of the Western Hospital for the Insane<\/strong> in Bolivar, Tennessee (otherwise known as Bolivar State Hospital).<\/p>\n

1) Administration<\/a>
\n2) Side View of the Kirkbride<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s too bad the second one is so small. There are a lot more like it too which can be seen in this list<\/a>. You can order prints<\/a> if you want to see them bigger.<\/p>\n

Moving up to Ohio, I also found a set of three interior images from Columbus State Hospital<\/a><\/strong> available on this page: Columbus State Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s a nice exterior of the Athens State Hospital<\/a><\/strong> admin: Athens State Hospital<\/a><\/p>\n

I think I prefer old photos of Kirkbrides to anything around today. They show the buildings much closer to their original state, before they were modified and modernized. There’s also a sort of “atmospheric haze” in older photographs that makes them seem more real while at the same time more ethereal. Maybe there’s a technical explanation for that, but being an intuitive sort of photographer, I have no idea what it is. I just know that I like it.<\/p>\n

Finally, as a little bonus here are some old drawings of two Wisconsin Hospitals for the Insane<\/a>. If you get past the clunky interface, you can get a pretty amazingly detailed view of them. While they’re not photographs, they’re still interesting to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised in my last post, here’s another collection of links to old photographs of Kirkbride asylums. There aren’t as many left for me to share as I thought. I really should have just thrown these in with the last bunch, but oh well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[103,163,112,146,164],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-pictures","tag-athens-state-hospital","tag-bolivar-state-hospital","tag-columbus-state-hospital","tag-photos","tag-wisconsin"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}