COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17092428
Reference Number:
VPH.8.2
Image Title:
Cricket XI 1901, Menston Asylum
Parent Work Title:
The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire. 1901.
Creator:
Unknown
Date Created:
1901
Page/Sheet:
2
Image Sequence Number:
2
Description:
The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum Cricket XI team from 1901. The men are in two rows dressed in Cricket whites, The front row seated on a bench and the back row stood behind them. The team surnames names are written below the print, Back row; (scorer) Brearly, Breenwood, Robinson, Ovington, Whalley, Dawson, Fox (umpire). Front row; Blackburne, Lamb, Eagerley, Donelan, (very likely, Dr Thomas O' Conor Donelan, whose inscription is at the front of the album) Hey, Hayley.
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:
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
