A girl, sitting on a stone bench with a fan folded at her side. Photograph by A. Reston.

Stretford : Arthur Reston

1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; 14.5 x 10.2 cm

Arthur Reston, Stretford Hand-written lettering in ink on verso, largely indistinct, but appears to bear two dates: "June 15th 1893" and "1855"

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

Wellcome Collection 39076i