| Description | Three letters from William Noyes, Assistant Physician of the Bloomingdale Asylum, New York, to Galton regarding composite photographs of asylum patients. Includes a printed notice titled "Composite Portraits of General Paresis and of Melancholia, by William Noyes, M. D.". Five composite photographs [albumen prints] of patients, heavily annotated on the reverse by Galton. Three envelopes containing a total of twenty-three individual portrait photographs of the subjects who make up the composites. |