COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17092452
Reference Number:
VPH.8.26
Image Title:
Interior view of the day room in the female chronic block, Menston Asylum
Parent Work Title:
The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire. 1901.
Creator:
Unknown
Date Created:
1901
Page/Sheet:
26
Image Sequence Number:
26
Description:
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.
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
