Some new photos from Fort Wayne

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Here is the other house on the former grounds of the Irene Byron Tuberculosis Sanatorium. I've done some research and learned that the houses were built in 1934 and are listed on the national register of historic places.

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Here is another photograph of my favorite tree, one of the most beautiful I have ever found. It is located on State Road 3 just north of Fort Wayne. I made this photograph in November, 2008.

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This Victorian-style brick apartment house is on Main Street in the small town of Kendallville, Indiana. It was vacant when I photographed it. Kendallville has a lot of ornate buildings on its Main Street.

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This graffiti is inside an abandoned one-room schoolhouse (Marion Township #10) on Winchester Road, just north of South County Line Road in Allen County, Indiana. It is one of only a couple of these old schoolhouses that I have found with reasonably intact interiors. Most have had the floors and interior walls torn out so that they could be used as barns or garages.

The entire interior is covered in spray-painted graffiti. This is on the back wall, where the blackboard would have been. I photographed it through one of the broken-out windows. Poison ivy covered the window frames, making it impossible for me to go inside!

I find it amusing that the graffiti appears to have been built up with different vandals responding to previous graffiti. An American flag has the word "f--k" written under it, with an arrow pointing at the flag. One vandal was patriotic, another wanted to say "F--k America," and another added a woman's name next to the curse word to say "F--k Alice."

I made this photograph yesterday afternoon.

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Here is more graffiti inside the Marion Township #10 Schoolhouse in rural Allen County, Indiana.

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This is the fence around Bethel Cemetery, which is right next to the abandoned schoolhouse where I found the graffiti in my last two photos.

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This house was at an abandoned farm on Till Road in northwest Allen County. I made several photographs of the inside of it in late 2008. It was demolished in 2009. I first photographed the outside of the house eight years earlier.

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The Upholstery Outlet is on Lower Huntington Road in the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, Indiana. For many years, the front of their little building had been covered in political signs, most notably the two large ones that say "Stop Taxing Property." In early 2012, I noticed that all the signs were gone, and the red, white and blue stars and stripes awning was replaced with a plain red one. I made this photograph in October, 2008, and just now got it scanned.

[gb hill]

Always like seeing your photographs Chris. Very interesting & patriotic area of the country despite much is overrun with so much dispair.

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Originally Posted by gb hill

Always like seeing your photographs Chris. Very interesting & patriotic area of the country despite much is overrun with so much dispair.

Thanks Greg. Here's another one from rural Wells County. This abandoned church actually sits right next to the abandoned Jefferson Township #4 schoolhouse that I posted last week.

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The Hanson Limestone Quarry on Ardmore Avenue, just outside the Waynedale area of Fort Wayne, is one of the largest stone quarries in Indiana. These piles of crushed limestone aggregate are in a pit near the entrance to the quarry, waiting to be used for concrete and asphalt. I photographed it tuesday afternoon to test out developing Tmax 100 in PMK Pyro developer.

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I found this old Olympia typewriter on the floor of an upstairs bedroom in an abandoned 19th Century farmhouse on County Road 1100N, just east of County Road 100E in Adams County, Indiana. I photographed it in May, 2009.

[jsrockit]

So jealous of all of these abandoned houses with no crack heads in them...

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Originally Posted by jsrockit

So jealous of all of these abandoned houses with no crack heads in them...

Our crackheads are all in the inner-city. The abandoned houses I go into are all in rural areas, far, far away from the crackheads.

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This ancient TV was in another bedroom in the same farmhouse as the typewriter that I posted a photo of earlier today.

[helenhill]

Fab Chris !
gritty Americana at its Best...tinged with melancholy

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Originally Posted by helenhill

Fab Chris !
gritty Americana at its Best...tinged with melancholy

Thanks Helen.

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Another from the Hanson Limestone Quarry in Fort Wayne. These piles of crushed limestone aggregate are in a pit near the entrance to the quarry, waiting to be used for concrete and asphalt. The machinery in the background is the Wayne Asphalt plant, located next door to the quarry.

[Jaans]

Originally Posted by Chriscrawfordphoto

This ancient TV was in another bedroom in the same farmhouse as the typewriter that I posted a photo of earlier today.

I like this shot a lot Chris. It is like a still from that movie "The Ring" where there were shots/stills in that old farmhouse. Also, the fact that you have retained detail in the window of the outside view is no easy feat!

[Jaans]

Forgot to ask - what film and developer did you use with this?

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Originally Posted by Jaans

I like this shot a lot Chris. It is like a still from that movie "The Ring" where there were shots/stills in that old farmhouse. Also, the fact that you have retained detail in the window of the outside view is no easy feat!

Thanks Jaans. I haven't seen that movie, I'll have to check it out. I shot this photo, and the one of the typewriter in the same house, on Fuji Acros. I developed it in Rodinal 1+50. The developing time is on my website's tech pages. Acros, and the Kodak Tmax films, retain a lot of detail in very overexposed areas, but getting it out into the print or scan is the hard part. I did a lot of work in Photoshop to retain that detail, while allowing the rest of the image to have enough contrast.

[BardParker]

Strong work, Chris! Keep it up. I really enjoy this thread!

Kent

[I Love Film]

That old TV is begging for a big rock to be thrown at the screen.

[robert blu]

The TV photo is so simple and so special. Bravo!
robert

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

Brad and Robert, thanks. Here's a photo of the outside of the house where I found the TV and typewriter.