End of the world, or something like it...
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StoneNYC

End of the world, or something like it...

Another from the abandoned psychiatric hospital, this was their power plant (yes the hospital apparently supplied their own power, I assume for the electro-stimulation machines?

Hand held.
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Location
Orangeburg, NY, USA
Equipment Used
Mamiya RZ67, 180mm lens, 70mm back, Sekonc 7xxDR
Exposure
f16@ 1/160th
Film & Developer
GAF 70mm Aerial Film Expired 1967 in HC-110 Dilution S (for Stone 1:25)
Paper & Developer
Epson Scan, basic edge cropping only
Is this print for sale?
  1. Yes
DWThomas
Nice -- my kinda thing! Many older institutions had power plants. They probably supplied electricity, or at least backup power, but also supplied steam heating for multiple buildings. Most(?) universities and other "campus" institutions had/have a stack or two sticking up in some far corner of the campus. Around here many small towns had their own plants. The "grid" and multi-megawatt plants are mid-20th C on. Electro therapy stuff could be run by batteries, there's not that much power involved, it's just where they put it!
 
StoneNYC
DWThomas said:
Nice -- my kinda thing! Many older institutions had power plants. They probably supplied electricity, or at least backup power, but also supplied steam heating for multiple buildings. Most(?) universities and other "campus" institutions had/have a stack or two sticking up in some far corner of the campus. Around here many small towns had their own plants. The "grid" and multi-megawatt plants are mid-20th C on. Electro therapy stuff could be run by batteries, there's not that much power involved, it's just where they put it!
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Interesting. This stuff seems to still be running actually. And the old psych buildings are just falling apart, but up the hill basically is a brand new set of hospitals. So rather than fix them up they just built new ones, but the stacks were still running and smoking, you just can't see it because I wanted to expose te stacks not the sky, and didn't have time to run and throw a red filter on. Anyway thanks for the history lesson / education. :smile:
 
hi stone
nice photo!
you should to to your local public library
ask them to get out the "sandborn maps"
you might be able to gain insights on the areas you want to photograph
by looking at the sandborn fire insurance maps ... they go back to the 1800s ...
and show building footprints and materials &c ...

you'd be surprised what used to be where things are now, and what "remnants" are still around ...
 

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