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Image Number:
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JRL17092429
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Reference Number:
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VPH.8.3
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Image Title:
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Charge attendants and Chief Attendant, 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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3
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Image Sequence Number:
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3
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Description:
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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.
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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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