Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Vicoria (Australia): men making baskets during occupational therapy. Photograph.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]

1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin ; sheet 15.5 x 20 cm

Idiot asylum Kew Victoria. Basket making Lettering hand-written in pencil on verso

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

Wellcome Collection 39082i