Photograph album

• Reference:GB 254 THB 29/15/4
• Dates of Creation:1860-2015
• Physical Description:
  1 item

• Scope and Content

  Contains photographs of patients, singly and in groups, of some staff, of ears, death masks and of the Asylum building. Some annotations identifying subjects, 1860-1862. Also contains copies of Dr Wm C McIntosh, 'Notes on the ears of the insane', 1862 and Mike Barfoot and A.D. Morrison-Low, 'W.C. M'Intosh and A.J. Macfarlane: Early Clinical Photography in Scotland', History of Photography, 23:3, pp 199-210 (2015)

• Access Information

  Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

• Acquisition Information

  LHBA and John Burt

• Archivist's Note

  Description compiled by JM

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Custodial History

  Had been in the possession of Lothian Health Board Archive: Mike Barfoot had borrowed the album directly from Murray Royal in the 1990s when researching his article 'Early Clinical Photography in Scotland' before the Murray Royal archives came to Dundee. The current archivist found it during John Burt's research

• Accruals

  Not expected

• Additional Information

  Published