Photographing the unclaimed dead

For the best part of a century, the majority of Oregon's mentally infirm residents were sent to the Oregon State Insane Asylum. Now known as Oregon State Hospital, the facility has several wings that are in disrepair. Photographer David Maisel was chaperoned around one of the disused wings by a prisoner tasked with cleaning them several years ago, and was led to a room dubbed "the library of dust." The contents of the room?

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