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Collection Area Visual Arts Subject Leprosy

1. Photo 1301

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1301
Title:
Photographs of Lepers. Being the first one hundred and forty-four admissions into the Matunga Leper Asylum, Bombay: with notes by K. R. Kirtikar, M.R.C.S., (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), Surgeon Major I.M.D. Late Acting Health Officer, Bombay; Civil Surgeon, Thana. (Bombay: Printed at the Native Opinion Press, 1891). Photographer(s): Unknown
Scope & Content:
Half-leather bound volume measuring 300 x 260 mm, with printed titlepage as above and containing 144 albumen print portraits of inmates of the Matunga Leper Asylum; spine detached, but otherwise in firm condition; St Bartholomew's Hospital Library bookplate pasted to front fixed endpaper, with d...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
Unspecified

2. Photo 1349(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1349(34)
Title:
'Unclean! Unclean!' wretched lepers outside Jerusalem, Palestine (St. Matt. viii: s-4). Photographer/Publisher: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic double.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1424/1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1424/1(20)
Title:
Lepers. Photographer(s): Gaye, Joseph
Scope & Content:
View of a group of lepers on the banks of a river. A copy of a photograph probably taken at Khokana near Kathmandu. Khokana was established in 1857 for a member of the ruling Rana dynasty who had contracted the disease. The colony is still home to those suffering from leprosy (Hansen's disease).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1892
Extent:
1 item