Photographs of patients taken for the hospital by Henry Hering of Regent Street, London.

Bethlem Royal Hospital.

London : np, nd (ca. 1857 – 30 June 1859).

[HPB-01] Box containing seven broken negatives of patients.

[HPB-02] Box containing eight negatives of patient photographs and two of the deed of covenant for the refoundation of St Bartholomew's Hospital

[Series HPA] Photographs of patients taken for the hospital by Henry Hering of Regent Street, London. 106 photographs of which HPA-01 to HPA-49 are mounted and titled with the initials, diagnosis and (in the case of criminal patients) crime of each patient.

Repository : Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum.

Photographer : Henry Hering (1814-1893).

Subject : Asylums — Bethlem Royal Hospital — Patient Portraits.

Notes :

• Website of the archive : http://www.bethlemheritage.org.uk/
• Part of Series 09 - Pictorial.
• Prints are numbered HPA-01 to HPA-78 and include several pairs and duplicates.
• Hering worked at 137 Regent Street W. from 1857 to 1874.
• Hering published most of the only photographs taken of F. Nightingale.