"Mother, Me, Duncan (Died 10-19), and Nanny McFalls," Scottish Albumen Cabinet Card, Circa 1888
This is an puzzling image—and one for which I am interested in reader input. The inscription on the image, printed in pencil with no punctuation, reads: “Mother, Me, Duncan (died 10-19), and Nanny McFalls.”
When I purchased the cabinet card, I presumed that it was a postmortem image showing a deceased child guarded by his or her Nanny, who wore a black bow on her white cap as well as a black dress with a white pin-front apron. The child’s well-heeled mother, in a proper dark dress, raised her eyes to heaven as if for angelic support, clutching her remaining offspring, who held a large china doll and looked warily at the camera.
Read more about this image at my history site, "Your Dying Charlotte." dyingcharlotte.com/2016/11/26/nanny-mcfalls-cabinet-card/
"Mother, Me, Duncan (Died 10-19), and Nanny McFalls," Scottish Albumen Cabinet Card, Circa 1888
This is an puzzling image—and one for which I am interested in reader input. The inscription on the image, printed in pencil with no punctuation, reads: “Mother, Me, Duncan (died 10-19), and Nanny McFalls.”
When I purchased the cabinet card, I presumed that it was a postmortem image showing a deceased child guarded by his or her Nanny, who wore a black bow on her white cap as well as a black dress with a white pin-front apron. The child’s well-heeled mother, in a proper dark dress, raised her eyes to heaven as if for angelic support, clutching her remaining offspring, who held a large china doll and looked warily at the camera.
Read more about this image at my history site, "Your Dying Charlotte." dyingcharlotte.com/2016/11/26/nanny-mcfalls-cabinet-card/