Picture Pages! Picture Pages!

Some of the inside views at Dixmont are a bit haunting. I took a full-roll of pictures within this building--however, there was no trace of many of them.
Most sites tell of Dixmont as a happy place and that everyone was just part of “one big happy family.” Dixmont housed patients for 122 years. 122 years. This entire time was flowers and sunshine?
Dixmont housed thousands of mentally-ill patients, mentally and physically disabled individuals, and many individuals that would be considered “normal” by today’s standards.


Dixmont was also home to rapists, murders and other violent individuals that society wanted rid of and didn't know what else to do with.
They couldn't be watched and contained all of the time. What crimes did they commit against the other patients?

The imprints could still be clearly felt within the walls.
All of my photos taken within the shower rooms and bathrooms are gone.

There weren't even black negatives showing where the pictures should have been--they simply weren't there at all.

Go figure.