@PhilosophyExp it was considered very sentimental, a lasting way to preserve the memory of the child (esp when infant mortality was high).
Good lord, didn't this cause the parents huge distress? http://bit.ly/118zRlO
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@maldorora Sure, but I meant the process of setting up the photo, etc (given how long & involved that would have been back then). -
@PhilosophyExp 2/2 But sometimes funerals were delayed just to get the photographer over to take a picture (ew...). -
@maldorora So basically people were just more familiar with death, grief, etc? (Did you study this stuff - or just interested?) -
@PhilosophyExp 2/2 the body would be laid out(hence "funeral parlor").the civil war&industrial age mortality escalated familiarity of death. -
@maldorora Thx. Interesting. If your funeralia collection makes it online, let me know!
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@nihilnihil my personal favorites in my collection involve the "hidden mothers" who held up their dead children but were hidden by veils.
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