Title (Welsh): Nadolig yn yr Ysbyty Orthopedig, Gobowen
National Library of Wales catalogue number: vtls003369409
Author: Charles, Geoff, 1909-2002
Date: December 26, 1956
Abstract: Images of Christmas time at the orthopaedic hospital in Gobowen showing, a nurse bottle feeding a baby, children on the wards some of whom are in fancy dress and others with their christmas gifts, doctors and nurses on their rounds, nurses decorating the hospital, Santa Claus and an angel visiting the children, and the nursing staff concert party and band, who performed for the children, backstage preparations with nurses helping doctors to wear their fancy dress costumes, and doctors and nurses standing with a mannequin dressed as a spaceman infront of a model UFO.
Part of: Casgliad Geoff Charles Collection,
Charles, Geoff, 1909-2002.
Notes:
Title assigned by cataloguer., A selection of the images have been published and appeared in Oswestry & Border Counties Advertiser, 26 December 1956 & 2 January 1957, and Y Cymro, 19 December 1956.
Notes (reproduction):
Computer file. Aberystwyth : National Library of Wales, 2000-2002 (Geoff Charles digitisation project) Original, master file captured in uncompressed TIFF format. Minimal tonal adjustments using levels and curves in PhotoShop. Master files archived as pc format TIFFS. On-screen display files resized and adjusted for viewing on gamma 2.2 monitors in PhotoShop and saved in JPEG format. 34 image files; Heidelberg Nexscan F4100 capture device using Linocolor v6.0.4 software. Filter settings: light contour-0.5, dark countour-0.5, smoothnes-0.6, countour width-1.0, scan spot size-4.0. Target resolution for hi-res capture was 300dpi at a factor of 450% resulting in +/- 6000 x 5000 pixels; screen res:+/- 600 x 500 pixels at 72dpi; screen-res and thumbnail copies use jpeg compression at setting: 7 in Adobe Photoshop v6.0; 8 bit grayscale; hi-res TIFFs: Gray Gamma 1.8 icc profile embedded.
Notes (action):
2001 ; scanned. Reprographic Unit, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion ; capture device operator : Simon Evans.
