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Photograph - Male Patient, circa 1920
Reg. No: SH 923128
- Summary:
- It is assumed that these might be photographs of a patient at a mental health hospital, Victoria, Australia, circa 1920. It comes from Mayday Hills Hospital and may have been displayed there.
- Description:
- Three sepia photographs of an Asian man contained within one frame. Two back views are the same, showing the man's marked back. Middle photograph is a front view of the same elderly man. Man is bald with grey hair and a white beard. The three photographs are mounted onto cardboard and are set in a painted wooden frame behind glass.
- Description Of Content:
- It is assumed that these might be photographs of a patient at a mental health hospital, Victoria, Australia, circa 1920. It comes from Mayday Hills Hospital and may have been displayed there.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Mayday Hills Mental Hospital, 1992
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 23.00 cm (Height), 3.00 cm (Width), 41.00 cm (Length) |
More information
| Tagged with: | mental health, mental health institutions, psychiatric hospitals |
| Themes this item is part of: | Psychiatric Services Collection, Medicine in Society Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection |
| Primary Classification: | MEDICINE & HEALTH |
| Secondary Classification: | Mental Health - Institutional Life |
| Tertiary Classification: | images (to be classified) |
| Inscriptions: | Printed at bottom of the three photographs: Vine's Studios/Beechworth Benalla Wangaratta |
| Format: | Photograph: Black & White |
| Photographer: | Vine's Studios, Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, circa 1920 |
| Place & Date Used: | Mayday Hills Mental Hospital, Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, circa 1920 |
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