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

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

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

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"

Wellcome Collection 39036i

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