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Antique Photo Album Post Mortem Photography
François Aubert | [The Corpse of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico] | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Post Mortem of a Girl who looks like she may have died from an accident.
I was informed by someone that this is, indeed, a post-mort photo, and most likely taken in Russia. I would have liked to know the story behind this. How sad for the mourners and for the person himself.
this one is eerie. they could have painted the eyes to either make them more open, or completely closed
Memento Mori young adult female with stillbirth with living male. COD: complications of childbirth.
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Pictured: The gruesome 19th-century portraits of dead children
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - These chilling photographs show dead children from all over the United States who were photographed after death, often with their parents or even with their siblings.