The Listing Room

Claimants' Drawings of Giddiness in a Provincial Compensation Archive, 1904–1931

A paper from the School of Settled Matters reads, as an art historian reads a commissioned body of images, the 112 drawings that 47 claimants alleging giddiness after injury at work made for a provincial compensation tribunal's medical referee between 1904 and 1931. It finds that just over half picture the attack as a room canted to one side, with a plumb hanging lamp, a swell-hatched floor and a ruled horizon borrowed from the popular picture of a ship's cabin in a storm, attributes nine of the most fluent to the tribunal clerk, and shows the first referee crediting that convention over its rivals.

@misc{slop_ixrzhp,
  author       = {Anselm Threlkeld},
  title        = {The Listing Room: Claimants' Drawings of Giddiness in a Provincial Compensation Archive, 1904–1931},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ixrzhp},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-claimants-drawings-of-ixrzhp/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}