A Son Lost, Albumen Carte de Visite, Circa 1863
"F. Heimbach's, Photographers, Cor. Eighth & Hamilton Sts., Allentown, PA."
This CDV is almost certainly of a mother holding her dead son. As is sometimes seen in postmortem images, the mother is not embracing her child; he rest upon her with minimum support, his hands slack and eyelids flat. Her cheeks are tinted with the pink representation of life, whilst his remain bone white and unadorned.
A Son Lost, Albumen Carte de Visite, Circa 1863
"F. Heimbach's, Photographers, Cor. Eighth & Hamilton Sts., Allentown, PA."
This CDV is almost certainly of a mother holding her dead son. As is sometimes seen in postmortem images, the mother is not embracing her child; he rest upon her with minimum support, his hands slack and eyelids flat. Her cheeks are tinted with the pink representation of life, whilst his remain bone white and unadorned.