Suitcases left by patients in the Willard Asylum for the Insane in New York, (photos by Jon Crispin): There is no sign of mental illness is this well-ordered suitcase left behind by Frank C., a WWII veteran from Brooklyn, New York.
Insane asylum patients’ suitcases photographed by Jon Crispin
If you were committed to a psychiatric institution, unsure if you’d ever return to the life you knew before, what would you take with you? That sobering question hovers like an apparition over each of the Willard Asylum suitcases.
Willard Asylum for the Insane, located in New York, was built in Patients had an average stay of 30 years, and many who came to the hospital never .
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Patients at the Willard Asylum for the Chronicly Insane left suitcases behind when they passed away, and with nobody to claim them they were forgotten for almost 40 years after the asylum closed in the mid
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