photographs | of the dead

"Little by little, the dead cease to exist." ~ Jean Baudrillard (Symbolic Exchange and Death, 1993) A collection of Post-mortem Photography.

[memorial-portraiture]

A real photo postcard showing two sisters laid out in matching coffins. An inked inscription verso in a fine period hand identifies the girls as Claudia Severine Groth / Born Sept. 30, 1908 / Died Feb. 20, 1911 and Millie Cecelia / Born Dec. 25, 1910 / Died Feb. 21, 1911. Underneath this the inscription identifies their mother, Mrs E. O. Groth / Enderlin / N. Dak.

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The Most Weird (Fascinating!) Tradition of Victorian Era Post-Mortem Photography

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1840s post mortem photo with medicine bottles still on the table.

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Post morten daguerreotype portrait of a child with her doll ca. 1850’s, via Cowan’s Auctions | My edit

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Extraordinary Sixth Plate Post Mortem Tintype Of A Young Girl,

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Post-Mortem Photograph of Queen Victoria, above her a Post-Mortem photograph of her beloved Prince Albert.

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(via Open Casket Edwardian Memorial Post Mortem by EphemeraObscura)

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ca. 1860, [Post mortem portrait of baby girl]

via the Southern Methodist University Libraries, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection

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ca. 1850’s, [post-mortem daguerreotype portrait of Benjamin Ward Alford]

via the Virginia Historical Society, Photographs Collection

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ca. 1850, [post mortem ambrotype portrait of a child]

via the Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography Collections

[tuesday-johnson]

ca. 1850, “Vieille femme sur son lit de mort”, [elderly woman on her deathbed], Rufus Anson

via the Musée d’Orsay

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