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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 415079, member: 8267"]Postmortem photos were more common in the 19th century, (though even then not as common as other types of photographs - hence the collectibility). The methods and equipment required specialists, so you needed to hire a photographer to take photographs of any sort. If there had not been an opportunity to photograph a person in life, you might want an image made in death.</p><p><br /></p><p>This picture looks more recent, and less likely to be an actual postmortem photo. Although, as Silverthwait says, some people still created mementos. But there are plenty of sentimental pictures of sweet sleeping babies from this period. This one just has hair.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 415079, member: 8267"]Postmortem photos were more common in the 19th century, (though even then not as common as other types of photographs - hence the collectibility). The methods and equipment required specialists, so you needed to hire a photographer to take photographs of any sort. If there had not been an opportunity to photograph a person in life, you might want an image made in death. This picture looks more recent, and less likely to be an actual postmortem photo. Although, as Silverthwait says, some people still created mementos. But there are plenty of sentimental pictures of sweet sleeping babies from this period. This one just has hair.[/QUOTE]
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