People with mental illness probably in Derby County Lunatic Asylum. Photographs attributed to E.W. Gregor, ca. 1895.

Album 1: 241 photographs, carte de visite size (ca. 7.7 x 5 cm.), of both men and women, each identified with the name inscribed in pencil on the mount, most photographs mounted six to a page, some verso pages (30, 34, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48) blank. Pages 36, 37 and 38 have the heading "Recovered"

Album 2: 125 photographs, carte de visite size (ca. 8 x 5 cm.), of women only, each identified with the name inscribed in pencil on the mount, most photographs mounted two to a page, individual photographs removed from pages 33, 35, 36

[1895?]

1 photograph album (49 pages, 241 photographs) : photoprints ; album sheets 19.5 x 24.8 cm
1 photograph album (50 pages, 125 photographs) : photoprints ; album sheets 11.3 x 14.4 cm

Records of Pastures Hospital (Derby County Lunatic Asylum) are in Derbyshire County Record Office (ref. D1658): case books, admission and discharge records etc. including photographs of the residents. The identities of the people shown in the present albums could be checked against those in Derbyshire. Photographs were also taken of patients in West Derby Workhouse Hospital (James Shaw, The physiognomy of mental diseases and degeneracy, Bristol: John Wright & Co., 1903)

Wellcome Collection 816187i

Provenance from the descendants of E.W. Gregor suggests that the album derives from his time as Senior Assistant Medical Officer, Derby County Lunatic Asylum, Mickleover, Derbyshire. He later became a general practitioner in Aylesford in Kent (he was there in 1907) and latterly at "Greenbanks", Melbourn, Cambridgeshire (he was there at least from 1912 to 1946)