COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17092429
Reference Number:
VPH.8.3
Image Title:
Charge attendants and Chief Attendant, Menston Asylum
Parent Work Title:
The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire. 1901.
Creator:
Unknown
Date Created:
1901
Page/Sheet:
3
Image Sequence Number:
3
Description:
The Charge attendants and Chief Attendant at Menston Asylum in 1901. The attendants are presented in three rows, they are dressed in a plain dark uniforms with tunic jackets and kepi style caps. The middle row are seated on a bench and the back row stood behind them. Two are positioned in front of the bench sat on the ground. The attendants surnames and presumably the ward they attended are written below the print, Back row; Hardisty 1, Ryder,3, McClymont,8, Smith,11, Jackson,4, Jolley,9. Seated middle row: Gordon (farm) Pounder,2, Ch. Att. Burton, Leach,6, Vernon,7. Front row on the ground; Roberts, 10, Brock,5.
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
