COLLECTION NAME:
Photography Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL17092434
Reference Number:
VPH.8.8
Image Title:
View of the female recreation grounds at the sick and infirm wards, Menston Asylum
Parent Work Title:
The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire. 1901.
Creator:
Unknown
Date Created:
1901
Page/Sheet:
8
Image Sequence Number:
8
Description:
View of the female recreation grounds at the sick and infirm wards, Menston Asylum. In the background can be seen the hospital buildings, Most of the ladies are seated on benches that line a neat pathway at the recreation ground. Some of the patients have tartan blankets and the nurses can be identified by their long dark dresses, long white aprons and white caps. In the foreground, a handful of patients and nurses are sitting on the grass near a sapling tree, some are looking directly at the photographer.
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
