In this poignant image, a serious-eyed young girl in a feedsack fabric dress holds her baby brother or sister who appears quite lifeless.
Original unused vintage real photo postcard, regular size, Azo stampbox with squares in corners (ca 1930). Very good condition with minor wear & soiling.
Fascinating antique tintype showing a not-so-hidden mother holding her small infant. It appears to me that the poor tiny baby may be lifeless.
Gorgeous little baby holding flowers in her hand, laid out in her wicker stroller
This is an original vintage possibly POST MORTEM tintype photograph from the 1800s. I believe it shows a dead girl posed in a chair next to two women. Post Mortem photography was a very common way to memorialize your loved ones during the Victorian period. The vacant look and open mouth, the cloudy eyes, and the eerie positioning of her hands are the clues that make me think this could be a Post Mortem Tintype, but take a look and decide for yourself.
This is a cabinet card of an infant who could simply be sleeping, but the more I look at it the more I think it is a post mortem image. It appears that the baby is being held by a parent who is covered with a blanket and therefore hidden from view. Because of the simple style of the cabinet card and the silver emulsion on the photo, I believe it to be from the late 1910s.
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