A girl with Down's syndrome, sitting, wearing striped socks. Photograph by J.A.Baldry.

  • Baldry, Joseph Arthur.
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1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; image 9 x 6 cm

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Joseph Arthur Baldry Lettering hand-written in pencil on sheet. On larger surrounding mount, lettering continues in black ink: "Imbeciles & idiots of "mongol" type - kalmuc or mongol idiots"

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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
The photograph is one of four attached to the same mount

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Wellcome Collection 39155i

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