I'm catching up on "Jack the Ripper: hidden Victims." I must have missed something but the statement that the photo of Kelly's corpse was the only known picture of her surprised me. I know that a pre mortem picture of Chapman existed (and was shown in the series) but I didn't know about the other three.
Kelly is one of the more enigmatic victims as very little is known about her except what she told others.
She may have been from Limerick, she might not. She may have been Welsh, maybe not. She might have spent time in France, not sure.
Her name is almost certainly not Mary Jane Kelly.
There is
a book by a chap called Weston-Davies who surmises she may well have been his resourceful great aunt who fled some hassle and ended up in the east end.
The reality is that all the information purporting to be about MJK is actually that put out by herself. No one has ever managed to find her on reliable records such as census or parish records. Even her skirmishes with the law, AFAIR, are hard to pin down as Mary Kelly was a common alias and sometimes a pejoratve for Irish women in London.
As such, it is almost impossible to say if a photo exists of Kelly before, as she used many names in her short, tragic life.
I know that a second crime scene photo was resdiscovered realtively recently, but it sheds little light on things.
Check out Hallie Rubenhold's
podcast based on her book, for the chapter about MJK.