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"London & Provincial Photographic Company, 443 Strand, Opposite Charing Cross Station. A. Maryson, Manager."
An abandoned and derelict mortuary at St. Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK.
It was built in the 1940s and closed in April 2009.
One of the autopsy rooms.
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A photo that has been identified and described as "A Petrolia postmortem photo by Robson. Notice the base behind the girl's feet -a post would go up from that with clamps at the waist and neck and the clothing would be open at the back. The arms would have stiff wires running at the back to hold them in place. The pupils are painted on the closed eyelids."
But is it really a postmortem? If not, maybe the more interesting story is why did someone mess with her eyes in the photo...
At the Dagerreian Society trade show we purchased two tintypes and two ambrotypes.
This is the back of the post mortem tintype of a small girl that I have posted. The orange 2 cent stamp gives us the period, 1864 to 66, and the price, 25¢.
This is a deathbed photo; my apologies to anyone who may find this creepy. This used to be a common practice.
La mère adoptive de mon arrière grand-mère sur son lit de mort.
This is a detail of the face of the baby on the tintype we bought yesterday. The eyes are slightly open but we feel that the baby may well be deceased or at least very ill.
"Varney, 3915 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago."
She appears to have very large circles under eyes. I think perhaps she is trying to look brave.
"C.E. Lewis, Art Photography, Blodgett's Block, Lebanon, N.H."
These two women, probably sisters, appear to be dressed in mourning, although it is possible that they are not.
Glasgow Museums; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
This painting was done in 1929, but portrays an elderly widow who appears to dressed in fashions fifty years old.
par Emmanuel Radnitsky, dit MAN RAY
Man Ray was living in Paris since only one year when Jean Cocteau asked him to photograph Marcel Proust on his bed of death.
"Charles Henry Skillman [(1841 -1938)], Photographer, 22 Uxbridge Road, Hammersmith."
It is very hard to find images of men in mourning because they didn't tend to augment their wardrobe beyond their best black suit, a band on their hats, mourning lapel pints or rings, or armbands--as is the case here. Men, who had to go out in the world and work, were not particularly socially constricted by the deaths of their kin, as were the women of their families. Their easy and utilitarian mourning garb is evidence of this.
"Photographed by Partridge, Cor. Main and Bank Sta., Bridgeport, Conn."
Written in pencil on the reverse is "Mrs. Young."
I like to think this CDV shows a sleeping baby and not a post mortem. The card mount is black and "L. F. Hurd, Greenwich, NY" is printed on the front and "Housholder, Operator" on the back.
The black card mount, not in my experience a common color, gives me an uneasy feeling but does not answer the question one way or the other.
I came across this family photo, after my mother passed away. I was going through all her stuff. She never showed me this one. But she had saved it for some reason. It is one of her deceased siblings, born before she was born, which was 1942.
nephew an first son-in law of Augustus
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The chilling sight of mortuary tables and other fittings date from the late 1950s, when Sachsenhausen - once a German concentration camp - was a Soviet camp administered by the Stasi, the East German secret police.
In its previous life, Adolf Hitler filled Sachsenhausen with trades unionists and political opponents (including communists and social democrats); then came the gypsies, gays and Jews, and anyone else deemed guilty of ‘anti-social’ behaviour.
Today, Sachsenhausen is open to the public as a memorial, and it has an education centre so that young people in particular can see at first hand the horrors of the past. Many of the original buildings have gone – but many are still there, as reminders of the terrible past. I have to say that the German authorities pull no punches, and tell the story as it happened.
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"Mizpah" was a popular concept in fin de siecle culture. At one point or another, anyone delving into the era will find jewelry or a photo, like this cabinet card, that features it. Wikipedia gives a very good short explanation, which I here quote: "Mizpah is Hebrew for 'watchtower.' As mentioned in the Bible, it marked an agreement between two men, with God as their witness.... Since that time, the mizpah has come to connote an emotional bond between people who are separated (either physically or by death).... From Genesis 31:49 of the Bible: "And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
In this image, the deceased is surrounded by plants and flowers that have a symbolic meaning. For example, one of the meanings assigned to violets in the Victorian language of flowers was "death too soon." Clover had the meaning "think of me," but it also--and to this day--symbolizes Ireland, leaving the possibility that the man pictured in this cabinet card was Irish.
"Charles Wright, Photographer, 235 High Holborn."
This woman looks tremendously like the actress Angela Pleasence, whom I adore.
"Alfred Bowman, Photographer, &C., Shelbyville, IND." Orange tax stamp, canceled by hand, "AB, April 1866."
This woman is wearing a black wrapper, almost certainly associated with mourning. Women wore wrappers in the morning hours before accepting visitors. Wrappers were also commonly worn by pregnant and nursing mothers.
Ongoing photographic project started 16.8.2011
Part of the set "postmortem".
Diptychon: Taube: DMC-G2 - P1070897 (18.8.2011),
Manipulated detail from "Francesco Bassano: The Fair" Museum of Fine Arts Vienna.
Francesco da Ponte, gen. Francesco Bassano: Jahrmarkt 1580/1585 KHM Wien Gemäldegalerie: DMC-G2 - P1130058 (22.9.2011)
"Under the Patronage of Her Majesty, London Stereoscopic & Photographic Compy, 54, Cheapside, and at 110 Regent Street. Sole Photographers to the International Exhibition 1862."
I believe this to be a postmortem, due to unnatural posturing, strange expression, especially the eyes of this 10 month old infant. At that age she would have been capable of sitting up on her own. Photo is dated 1877.
Carte de visite by H.O. Bly of Hanover, N.H. The drawn face and lifeless hands of this infant fade into the white material in what was the child’s final resting place. The casket, dark in color and covered with prominent rivets, is propped up on a simple chair to allow the photographer a compelling angle to take this post mortem portrait. A revenue stamp on the back of the mount dates this image to the late or early post Civil War.
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