Detail View: Photography Collection:
|
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
|
|
Creator Role:
|
Photographer
|
|
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:
|
Photography
|
|
Sub-Category:
|
Analogue photography
|
|
Technique Used:
|
Gelatin silver prints
|
|
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:
|
|
|
Bibliography:
|
|
|
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 Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
|
|
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
|
2017-09
|
|
Metadata Language:
|
eng-GB
|