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Image Number: 
JRL17092436
Reference Number: 
VPH.8.10
Image Title: 
Interior view of the stores, Menston Asylum
Parent Work Title: 
The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire. 1901.
Creator: 
Unknown
Date Created: 
1901
Page/Sheet: 
10
Image Sequence Number: 
10
Description: 
Interior view of the stores, Menston Asylum. Showing a massive room with a high roof. There is a mezzanine level with floor to ceiling shelving containing supplies; the main floor has more shelving and two large wooden tables. There are a number of men visible, staff and possibly patients. A staircase in the back left corner provides access to the upper floor.
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: 
Visual
Sub-Category: 
Analogue photography
Sub-Category: 
Gelatin silver prints
Technique Used: 
Gelatin silver process
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 The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2017-09
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Photography