Noyes, William
- Date:
- Apr-Oct 1888
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/8/1/1/12
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Three letters from William Noyes, Assistant Physician of the Bloomingdale Asylum, New York, to Galton regarding composite photographs of asylum patients. Includes a printed notice titled "Composite Portraits of General Paresis and of Melancholia, by William Noyes, M. D.". Five composite photographs [albumen prints] of patients, heavily annotated on the reverse by Galton. Three envelopes containing a total of twenty-three individual portrait photographs of the subjects who make up the composites.
Publication/Creation
Apr-Oct 1888
Physical description
3 letters plus 1 enclosure and 28 photographs
Terms of use
The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Location of duplicates
A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.
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Location of original
The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.