Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, after 1851

carte de visite

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mares, F. H.
Great Britain, Scotland, Edinburgh; Ireland, Dublin
after 1851
paper
overall: 2-1/2 x 4-1/8 in.

Carte de visite, albumen print on white card; Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, after 1851; collected by Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899) during his travels as a shipmaster to the British Isles; Donaldson's Hospital, founded in Edinburgh in 1851 by Sir James Donaldson, originally a school for poor children who bore the name Donaldson themselves, though later became a school for the deaf (originally not all children were deaf, though applications for deaf children were encouraged); handwritten on back "Donaldsons/ Hospital/ Edinburgh"; printed on back "FHMARES/ PORTRAIT AND/ LANDSCAPE ARTIST/ No 79 Grafton St/ DUBLIN".

2005.34.43