Detail View: Photography Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL17092452
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Reference Number:
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VPH.8.26
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Image Title:
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Interior view of the day room in the female chronic block, 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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26
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Image Sequence Number:
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26
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Description:
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Interior view of the day room in the female chronic block, Menston Asylum. A large room with a wooden floor and lots of light from high windows. There are drapes around the windows, a picture on the wall and lots of potted plants decorating the room. An upright piano can be seen next to one of the windows, close to the piano there is a large circular table with chairs around it. A lady is sat reading next to the tiled fireplace, which has an upholstered easy chair in front of it. In the foreground is an oval shaped table, with billiard size balls on it, possibly a small-scale billiards table, or similar for recreation.
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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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