A girl with Down's syndrome, sitting in front of an ornate wooden screen, holding a small posy of flowers. Photograph by Chas Marshall.

  • Marshall, Charles (Photographer)
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Ealing (35 High St) ; Hammersmith (Cambridge Rd) : Chas Marshall

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1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; image 8.9 x 5.6 cm

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Chas Marshall. 35 High St, Ealing. Cambridge Rd, Hammersmith W Lettering stamped in gold on sheet. The photograph is one of three attached to a larger mount which bears the following lettering in blue pencil: "mongoloids"

Notes

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

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Wellcome Collection 39158i

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