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Moundsville, WV
November 3rd, 2014
The Former West Virginia State Penitentiary, a National Historic Places Registered facility, operated by the Moundsville Economic Development Council in Moundsville, West Virginia.
The history of this historic penitentiary:
"The prison at Joliet provided the prototype for the West Virginia Penitentiary. It was an imposing stone structure fashioned in the castellated Gothic architectural style (adorned with turrets and battlements, like a castle). Only the dimensions of West Virginia's facility would differ; it would be approximately one-half the size of Joliet.
No architectural drawings of the West Virginia Penitentiary have been discovered, so an understanding of the plan developed by the Board of Directors must be obtained through their 1867 report, which details the procurement of a title for ten acres of land and a proposal to enclose about seven acres. On the north side would be a street 60 feet in width, and on the west 140 feet for street and yard to the front buildings.
The prison yard would be a parallelogram 682 1/2 feet in length, by 352 1/2 feet in width, enclosed by a stone wall 5 feet in thickness at the bottom, 2 1/2 feet at the top, with foundation 5 feet below the surface, and wall 25 inches thick. At each of the corners of this wall would be large turrets, for the use of the guards, with inside staircases. Guardrooms would be above on a level with the top of the main. The superintendent's house and cell buildings would be so placed that the rear wall of each would form part of the west wall. "
SOURCE: www.wvpentours.com/history.htm
Rising in stepped ramps sheathed in emerald green turf, and clustered around swirling ponds, Cells of Life is a landform by Charles Jencks that celebrates the cell, the basic unit of life.
Il temporale di venerdi pomeriggio con formazione di una super cella
The storm by Friday afternoon with the formation of a super cell
Imagine being a teenager and spend here some months, sleeping on that matress and wasting your time in that cell. Ngl, I'd do it.
Cell tower in Posadas city outskirts.
Rolleicord IV, Xenar Schneider 3,5/75, . Fuji Provia 100F 120 slide film
names from the cell
index cards from the police investigation files against nazi criminals from the RSHA from 1964 - Topographie des Terrors, Berlin
Abandoned jet engine testing facility. On the "Dirty Garbage Tour" with some good peeps! Save the drama for yuh mama!!
Eastern State Penitentiary
Philadelphia, PA
May 26th, 2014
One of the tops views of Cell Block Seven that is often photographed. I lucked out and got there early enough before anyone else was in the shot
Some info from the E.S.P. website:
"Most eighteenth century prisons were simply large holding pens. Groups of adults and children, men and women, and petty thieves and murderers, sorted out their own affairs behind locked doors. Physical punishment and mutilation were common, and abuse of the prisoners by the guards and overseers was assumed.
In 1787, a group of well-known and powerful Philadelphians convened in the home of Benjamin Franklin. The members of The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons expressed growing concern with the conditions in American and European prisons. Dr. Benjamin Rush spoke on the Society's goal, to see the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania set the international standard in prison design. He proposed a radical idea: to build a true penitentiary, a prison designed to create genuine regret and penitence in the criminal's heart. The concept grew from Enlightenment thinking, but no government had successfully carried out such a program.
It took the Society more than thirty years to convince the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to build the kind of prison it suggested: a revolutionary new building on farmland outside Philadelphia."
For More info: www.easternstate.org/learn/research-library/history
This is a typical cell at Alcatraz prison. It measured a mere 5' by 9' much smaller than the standards of a prison today.
However, I have to say I have had many hotel rooms on Manhattan Island NY that weren't much bigger..:-)
Prison
Find the whole series here: www.behance.net/gallery/85412829/Dissident-Detainment
Cell 3. Lit from under the walkway. Idea stolen from Muddy. Also lit inside the exhaust or whatever it may be.
A Pixel 3 cell phone running Android 9. For 2019: one photo each day (9/365) and 119 pictures in 2019, #92 "Something you take for granted". We now take instant communications and data instantly available at one's fingertips for granted. And getting directions to and from anywhere as well. What would you do if all the cell towers in your area disappeared? This is not a theoretical question - during most landfalling hurricanes and other weather emergencies, this frequently is the case. Are you prepared?
While out walking the other day I came across a bit of broken electronics laying on the side of the road. I don't know what it was when it was whole because only a small bit holding these tiny button cell batteries remained. Possibly a small flashlight? As I don't like leaving discarded batteries I find laying around in nature, I stuck them in my pocket and brought them home to dispose of them properly. Before I did I tested them with a battery tester, and despite looking very weathered, they are all good. Guess I'll keep them, they might come in handy for something.