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LL/36759
James Crichton-Browne
1869 (ca)
West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire: a woman, looking upwards with her mouth slightly open; head and shoulders. 'Chronic mania'

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Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0029710EL, Library reference no.: ICV No 30191L)
 
The photograph may have been taken by Sir James Crichton-Browne (1840-1938), the medical superintendent at West Riding Asylum 1866-1876. Crichton-Browne sent a similar set of photographs to Charles Darwin in or around 1869
 
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