RARE 1880s Post Mortem Photo Young Baby Girl Parent Holding Her Under Blanket
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RARE 1880s Post Mortem Photo Young Baby Girl Parent Holding Her Under Blanket. Shipped with USPS First Class.What a sad but also beautiful photo from the late 1880s of a young baby girl in a ornate with dress! Holding flowers and bows in her hair! You can clearly see a parent holding her up from underneath a dark blanket!Photo is in great shape with nice contrast and clarity! The image is 3 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches! The fancy outter mount is 6 x 8 inches! ...Back is blank but photographer and studio listed on front of mount!Please view all the photos and you be the judge of condition! The Victorian Era was a pretty morbid time in human history. One of the most unsettling traditions of the era was the practice of post-mortem photography (that is, photographing the dead). By today’s standards, this is would be pretty taboo, but at the time it was seen as quite normal.That doesn’t mean that seeing those pictures now makes them any less creepy, in fact it probably makes them even more creepy!
