I have read that photographs of asylum patients were taken from 1917 onwards. I have paid Sheffield Archives for research into an ancestor that was in Middlewood between 1899 and 1917. Would I have been told if there was a photograph with his records? Does anyone know if it was just photographs of new patients or existing ones?

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Byrony.

I and 3 others transcribed the admission registers.

I have also seen some of the case papers before they were subject to the freedom of information act. Not all cases carry a photograph.
If the archives have already supplied you with the information you requested then I would enquire as to whether a photograph existed. They are the only people who can answer this.

A photograph of my friends Gran was available during her stay. They were not necessarily taken when the patients were admitted.
Angela

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Thanks for the information Angela.

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