Detail View: Photography Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL17092446
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Reference Number:
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VPH.8.20
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Image Title:
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Interior view of the men's ward no. 9 day room, 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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Date Created:
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1901
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Page/Sheet:
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20
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Image Sequence Number:
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20
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Description:
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Interior view of the men's ward no. 9 day room, Menston Asylum. A large room with a wooden floor and lots of light from tall windows. There are many tables with chairs dotted around the room as well as numerous potted plants and pictures decorating the walls. A tiled fireplace and a set of double doors can be seen on the far wall. Two gentlemen are sitting on chairs in the room.
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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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Visual
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Sub-Category:
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Analogue photography
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Sub-Category:
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Gelatin silver prints
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Technique Used:
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Gelatin silver process
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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 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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Collection Code:
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Photography
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