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RETREAT PHOTOGRAPHS

Photograph albums and photograph sets

Album of Photographs of The Retreat

Sister Tutor, Physician Superintendent and Matron, outside Retreat front door; Loose in volume

Aerial view of The Retreat from the South

The Minster seen from the garden

The Hostel, exterior, for convalescent women patients

The Lodge, front

Country dancing on The Lodge Field

A corner of the Women's Admission Hospital, exterior

The Verandah, Women's Admission Hospital, interior

Nursing in the Insulin Unit (close up of nurse and patient)

The corridor of West Centre, interior

The X-Ray Department; (close up of patient and doctor)

The Physiotherapy Department, interior; (women doing exercises)

The Physiotherapist giving treatment; (physiotherapist and patient)

Morning exercises in the Recreation Room; (men doing exercises)

The Occupational Therapy Pavilion, exterior

Occupational Therapy; (Wood carving activity shown, patient and supervisor)

Showcase of Patients' Handcrafts; (woman looking into showcase)

The Pathological Laboratory; (man looking into microscope)

In the Training School; (sister tutor, charts and pupils in classroom)

The Nurses' Home, exterior

'Each nurse has a single bedroom'; (nurse standing in bedroom)

Dining Room in the Nurses' Home; (shows nurses eating)

Sitting Room, Nurses' Home; (group relaxing in sitting room)

The Heated Swimming Pool; (shows swimmers)

Looking at a portrait of William Tuke, the founder; (J.A. Taylor, Secretary, looking at the portrait)

Painting Therapy; (people painting on lawn)

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