A boy smiling and standing next to a wooden chair. Photograph.

  • Davis, John (Portrait and landscape photographer)
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A boy smiling and standing next to a wooden chair. Photograph. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Lancaster (Market Street Chambers & Alfred Street) : John Davis

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1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 9.3 x 5.5 cm

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Jno. Davis. Photo. Lancaster Lettering stamped on front of mount, continues on verso: "this or any other picture enlarged to life size and finished in any style"

Notes

Part of a collection of photographs formed by George Edward Shuttleworth (1842-1928). He was Superintendent of the Royal Albert Asylum at Lancaster from 1870 to 1893. On his retirement in 1893, he devoted himself to the study of insanity, and published a book entitled "Mentally-deficient children: their treatment and training", London 1895. Some of his photographs, manuscripts and publications were presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1929

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Wellcome Collection 39036i

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