Detail View: Photography Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL17092447
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Reference Number:
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VPH.8.21
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Image Title:
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Interior view of the men's ward vestibule corridor, 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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21
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Image Sequence Number:
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21
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Description:
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Interior view of the men's ward vestibule corridor, Menston Asylum. A wide corridor with parquet wooden flooring. The walls are partially panelled below the dado rail and a decorative frieze sits above the dado. There are many pictures hanging on the walls and busts and small sculptures are also visible set on plinths at intervals along the corridor. There are numerous tables with potted plants on them and chairs lining the vestibule.
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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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