Nurse Call Button

Provenance

Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Settings
67mm · f/4.0 · 1/50 · ISO 125
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm

This worn nurse call button remains fixed to a decaying wall inside the Queen Victoria Sanitorium. It once connected patients to vital care, now only echoes fill the abandoned wards.

Edition
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Nurse Call Button at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, bedside button used to get the attention of nursing staff by patients.Nurse Call Button at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, bedside button used to get the attention of nursing staff by patients.Nurse Call Button at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, bedside button used to get the attention of nursing staff by patients.Nurse Call Button at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, bedside button used to get the attention of nursing staff by patients.Nurse Call Button at Queen Victoria Sanitorium, bedside button used to get the attention of nursing staff by patients.
01 PROVENANCE

Print datasheet

Title
Nurse Call Button
Series
Queen Victoria Sanitorium
Catalogue
QVS-012
Process
Giclée
Captured
20 September 2015
Camera
NIKON D7000
Lens
24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture
f/4.0
Shutter
1/50 s
ISO
125
Focal length
67 mm
Paper
Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
Paper size
290 × 200 mm
Location
Mount Victoria, New South Wales, Australia
Recognised by
Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
02 LOCATION

Mount Victoria, New South Wales, Australia

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04 FROM THE FIELD NOTES

Bedside button used to get the attention of nursing staff by patients.

Brett Patman

Queen Victoria Sanitorium

The series

Queen Victoria Sanitorium

2015 · 14 photographs

Queen Victoria Sanitorium opened on 18 February 1903 at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains as a tuberculosis sanatorium for men. The original house was built for Sydney businessman Kelso King, who sold the property to the Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee Homes for Consumptives Fund after the death of his wife Irene in 1900. The full complex was designed and built between 1902 and 1921. The sanatorium ran for 55 years before becoming a hospital for the aged and chronically ill in 1958 and finally a nursing home, which closed in May 1999. The site is on the local heritage register (item Wf025) but is not on the NSW State Heritage Register. Most of the complex is now in ruin.

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05 SIZE GUIDE

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