Monday, October 31, 2011

Post Mortem






Exceptional 19th century post mortem daguerreotypes.

Available here.

2 comments:

tj said...

...Heartbreaking yet they are all so beautiful.

...I love how the paper clipping on the second from the last photo of the gorgeous little girl reads, "Death saw strange beauty on that Infants brow, and dashed it out."... Wonderful albeit morbid collection.

...Happy Halloween!

...Blessings :o)

Joey said...

Wow, what a quote! I missed that the first time....glad you alerted me to it. So heartbreaking....

Happy Halloween!