Image Number:
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JRL17092444
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Reference Number:
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VPH.8.18
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Image Title:
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Interior view of the hair shop, Menston Asylum
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Parent Work Title:
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The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire. 1901.
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Creator:
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Unknown
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Creator Role:
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Photographer
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Date Created:
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1901
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Page/Sheet:
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18
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Image Sequence Number:
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18
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Description:
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Interior view of the hair shop, Menston Asylum. Large piles of hair are scattered about the room. A patient sits on the left of the room, holding a chalkboard sign that says 'Upholstering department'. More patients sit opposite, on benches situated against a wall that has large windows in it. In the middle of the room is a sewing machine and presumably one of the staff, stood to the side of the equipment. The hair is likely to be horsehair which was commonly used to fill upholstered furniture at the time.
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Keyword:
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Gelatin Silver Print, Architecture, Landscape, Victorian, Menston, Institutions, Leeds, Bradford, High Royds, Hospitals.
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Language:
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English
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Language Code:
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eng-GB
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Subject:
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Photography--History--20th century
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Subject:
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Great Britain--History
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Subject:
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Asylums
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Subject:
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Psychiatric hospitals
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Subject:
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Medicine--History
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Category of Material:
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Photography
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Sub-Category:
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Analogue photography
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Technique Used:
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Gelatin silver prints
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Support:
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Paper
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Creation Site:
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England: West Yorkshire: Bradford: Menston
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Time Period Covered:
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20th Century CE
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Places Covered:
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England: West Yorkshire: Bradford: Menston
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Item Height:
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107 mm
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Item Width:
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152 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Dr Thomas O'Conor Donelan, decd. 22nd February 1914, former owner.
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights Holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Bibliography:
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Notes:
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References have been found to the Hospital under the following names: The Third West Riding County Lunatic Asylum, West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum and Menston Asylum; It was later named High Royds Hospital. The inscription at the front of the volume is the name 'Dr T O' Conor Donelan, Menston Asylum, Leeds Nov. 19. 1901' Dr O' Conor Donelan, worked at the asylum until 1905.
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2017-09-20
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2017-09
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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