This photo has my curiosity, who in the world do you suppose is in this coffin? It is a fairly large photo, 5x7 and the matting board is about 8x10. So it wasn't just a passing thing.. ha!
This is the mark on the back, a stamp? I could not find out anything about a photographer by this name. The only hit I had was concerning a Free Soil political party.. do you suppose that this photo is foreign ..since the Photograph is spelled with an e at the end? Do you suppose someone important died and this was sent to family members in America? What a sad way to get news of a relatives death, but he or she did have some fairly nice flowers.
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Yikes, that is morbid, isn't it? I know it was the custom "back in the day" to take pictures of even dead bodies in caskets for "one last rememberance"...but I find it gruesome!
ReplyDeleteThat is very curious. Hope you are having a nice afternoon.
ReplyDeleteI had a picture of my Grandfather in a casket, side view, I was looking for it, that I never did find in the house of my mom's. Maybe it is best that I didn't.
ReplyDeleteThat maybe is where the dried flowers in my mom's graduation photo came from. There were flowers everywhere from what I remembered from the photo.
I have read it was quite common to photograph funerals for exactly the reason you suggest. Embalming was not what it is today, plus sometimes only a few close relatives could attend if they lived near by. In the time of great emigration to America it makes sense a photo of a patriarch's funeral would help family abroad get a sense of the occasion. State funerals were also photographed much like we document them now. Stalin's funeral was attended by thousands but it's not likely they really saw anything.
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