Collection of black-and-white photographic prints (plus one post card and one hand-drawn map) on cardboard cards; the photographs were taken in Rutlam, India at the Mission Hospital and show the hospital and patients treated there; the photographs are glued onto the cards and have handwriting in in…
Collection of black-and-white photographic prints (plus one post card and one hand-drawn map) on cardboard cards; the photographs were taken in Rutlam, India at the Mission Hospital and show the hospital and patients treated there; the photographs are glued onto the cards and have handwriting in ink, identifying them.
Number Of Parts
38
Part Names
a - map on card - Length 13.8 cm x Width 17.8 cm x Depth 0.1 cm
b - c: 1 photograph on card
d - 2 photographs on card
e - h: 2 photographs on card
i - 1 photograph on card
j - s: 2 photographs on card
t - w: 1 photograph on card
x - post card on card
y - z:2 photographs on card
aa - ll: 2 photographs on card
Provenance
Collected by Dr. A. A. Travill for the Queen's University Faculty of Medicine Collection.
Dates
1920
1925
circa 1920-1925
Material
paper: off-white
ink: black, various
Inscriptions
(a) Map identified as, "MAP OF INDIA // SHADED = NATIVE STATES" (filled in); (b) "Mission Hospital — Rutlam, India // The out-patient Department"; (c) "Mission Hospital — Rutlam, India // wards and Laboratories"; (d) "Private wards"; (e) "Nurses' Home — Indian" and "Operating Room"; (f) "A Ward at the Dhar Leper Hospital" and "Distributing Christmas gifts to the Lepers"; (g) "Early Leprosy" and "Late Leprosy"; (h) "Osteochondroma"; (i) "Leprosy — Nerve & Skin types"; (j) "Nose & lip cut off by angry husband. The same — repaired at mission Hospital"; (k) "Cancer" and "Cancer"; (l) "Cancrum oris"; (m) none; (n) "Sarcoma" and "Mycetoma"; (o) "Ovarian Tumour // Before Operation // After"; (p) "Cancer of face" and "Same"; (q) "Ovarian cyst Before" and "after operation"; (r) "Ovarian Tumour // Held by assistant" and "on a table"; (s) "Snakes alive?" and "Cobra [underlined] – hood spread // before snake charmer"; (t) "Purdah woman // face covered. // Before operation // after"; (u) "Acrobats"; (v) "Holy man – arm flexed"; (w) "Operating room"; (x) "The Famous Indian Charkha" in printing with "Gandhi has done much to encourage // home industry with the spinning wheel" handwritten in ink below; (y) "Smallpox and bedsore" and "Scarring from burn"; (z) "Harelip – before" and "after operation"; (aa) "Leprosy – Deformity" and "Leprosy – Treatment"; (bb) "Leprosy – Deformity" and "Leprosy – Deformity"; (cc) "cauliflower cancer" and "cancer"; (dd) "Cancer – head" and "Cancer – breast"; (ee) "Cancer of face" and "another of same"; (ff) "Obstruction of the bowels // Volvulus & gangrene" and "Impaction"; (gg) "Leucoderma – back" and "front"; (hh) "Child's eye destroyed // by home treatment" and "Malignant growth // of eye"; (ii) "Is she suffering? // Acute malignant Pemphigus – rare. // – body covered with blisters"; (jj) "Guinea worm – being // removed from man's chest" and "Malaria. Enlarged spleen"; (kk) "Opium-fed baby"; (ll) "On Tour – the tents – " and "The Dispensary"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-1-4 Box #21
Dimension Notes
Length 17.8 cm x Width 13.8 cm x Depth 0.1 cm
Condition Remarks
The photographs are in very condition with no tears or stains; the cards show some discolouration and wear at the edges; #2: slightly yellowing
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Document
Reference Comments
Previous number #125; Faculty of Medicine Collection 1984 Inventory