| StorageSite | UCL Special Collections |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | GALTON/2/8/1/6 |
| Title | Composite Photographs: Hanwell Asylum Patients |
| Date | c1880s |
| 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. |
| Extent | 6 items |
| Arrangement | These photographs appear to have been received by or arranged by Galton in two batches, with sequential numbers. |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
| Related Material | See also GALTON/2/8/1/12/5 for a further four copies of Hanwell Asylum photographs. |