Composite Photographs: Hanwell Asylum Patients
- Date:
- c1880s
- Reference:
- GALTON/2/8/1/6
- Part of:
- Galton Papers
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Description
Photographs of patients at Hanwell Asylum, variously known as Middlesex County Asylum at Hanwell, 1831-1889; London County Asylum, Hanwell, 1889-1918; London County Mental Hospital, Hanwell, 1918-1937; St Bernard's Hospital, Hanwell, 1937-1980. Also known informally as Hanwell Insane Asylum or Hanwell Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Patients were allocated a number when they were photographed. Most photographs have also been annotated with the patient's name. Male patients only.
Publication/Creation
c1880s
Physical description
6 items
Arrangement
These photographs appear to have been received by or arranged by Galton in two batches, with sequential numbers.
Related material
See also GALTON/2/8/1/12/5 for a further four copies of Hanwell Asylum 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.