The Victorian Era was full of strange customs, etiquettes, and traditions, and their manner of grieving the dearly departed was no exception. In...
The Victorian Era was full of strange customs, etiquettes, and traditions, and their manner of grieving the dearly departed was no exception. In this dark era, photographing the dead was as common as bringing flowers to a funeral.
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The guy on the right has already met his maker. A Victorian photographer deliberately posed this photo to ensure that it would resemble a pose that the twins mightve struck while they were still both alive
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One of these siblings is not like the others.
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This boy is also dead, but that's not what he's here to demonstrate. We've established that Victorian people photographed their dead for posterity before holding any sort of funeral services for their loved ones, but what's interesting about this photo is the detail near his foot.
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Ah, the grotesque and delicate art of posing dead bodies to make them seem almost...ALIVE.
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I bet it took you at least a moment to decide. Without a casket and a massive spread of fragrant funeral flowers its sort of hard to tell whos passed into the world beyond the living,
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I also forgot to mention that Victorian Post-Mortem photographs were taken, sometimes, regardless of the manner of death.
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Sitting-stands were also an option if you wished to have your deceased loved-one in a more casual pose.
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Here's a photo of Miriam "Mae-Mae" Burbank, just sitting at a table in a living room setting holding a menthol and her favorite beer. The only strange thing about the scene? She's 100 percent dead.
