Detail View: Photography Collection:

Image Number: 
JRL17092448
Reference Number: 
VPH.8.22
Image Title: 
Interior view of the dormitory at the no. 6 men's ward, Menston Asylum
Parent Work Title: 
The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire. 1901.
Creator: 
Unknown
Creator Role: 
Photographer
Date Created: 
1901
Page/Sheet: 
22
Image Sequence Number: 
22
Description: 
Interior view of the dormitory at the no. 6 men's ward, Menston Asylum. A long open room with lots of light and a polished wooden floor. Numerous beds are in lines, all uniformly made up with pillows, sheets and blankets. The central row of beds are set out back to back, rows of beds also protrude from each of the walls. There are five doors at the far end of the dormitory.
Keyword: 
Gelatin Silver Print, Architecture, Landscape, Victorian, Menston, Institutions, Leeds, Bradford, High Royds, Hospitals.
Language: 
English
Language Code: 
eng-GB
Subject: 
Photography--History--20th century
Subject: 
Great Britain--History
Subject: 
Asylums
Subject: 
Psychiatric hospitals
Subject: 
Medicine--History
Category of Material: 
Photography
Sub-Category: 
Analogue photography
Technique Used: 
Gelatin silver prints
Support: 
Paper
Creation Site: 
England: West Yorkshire: Bradford: Menston
Time Period Covered: 
20th Century CE
Places Covered: 
England: West Yorkshire: Bradford: Menston
Item Height: 
107 mm
Item Width: 
152 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Dr Thomas O'Conor Donelan, decd. 22nd February 1914, former owner.
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights Holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
Bibliography: 
Notes: 
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.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2017-09-20
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2017-09
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB