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Part of the set: MORPH. COLUMBA: Ongoing photographic project started 16.8.2011
DMC-G2 - P1250496 17.1.2012 Bearbeitung 22.1.2012
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Part of the set: MORPH.
COLUMBA: Ongoing photographic project started 16.8.2011
DMC-G2 - P1250496 17.1.2012 Bearbeitung 22.1.2012
"Photographed by Pine & Bell, (Marble Place,) 336 & 318 River Street, Troy, NY"
2 cent tax tamp on reverse.
"F. Nunn, Photographic Artist, 20 Newboro Street, Scarboro."
The woman in this image wears a hair memorial brooch, what looks like a black gutta percha cross on a wide ribbon, and a black glass or jet hair ornament.
As with this image: www.flickr.com/photos/60861613@N00/9986304314, the photographer has purposefully cast the young woman on the right in the role of supporter. Whilst she has a handkerchief on her lap to show that the death has touched her, she is not a relation compelled to wear mourning. She holds the hand of the woman on the left, who is in second-stage mourning clothing, and looks at her intently, offering her own strength. The mourner stares with determination off into the future. They are marking a loss, but are determined to survive it.
"Postmortem" is a bit unfair as this small Kansas town isn't quite dead yet, but its business section is definitely moribund. Virtually every building is empty and in disrepair. There was a barbershop that seemed to be still in business across the street from this row of buildings, and if memory serves, just down the block there is a recently built micro-bank. Otherwise . . . .
This was my second stop on my way to DC/Maryland--off Kansas Highway 4, only about 35 miles NE of my hometown of Topeka. I figured as I left home, that it was about even money whether I would make it out of state before nightfall or not (mind you, the border with Missouri is only 85 miles from home the way I was traveling, but my propensity for detours, and stopping for photos often means that traveling 100 miles in a day is often unlikely). "Even money" turned out to be exactly right, as I ended up spending the night in Elwood, KS, which is right on the boarder with Missouri--and ended up driving into St. Joseph, MO to eat. So, depending how you look at it, I came just short of leaving the state, or barely managed to do so.
© Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection
On the reverse is written "Mary Chadwick Brooks Anderson, at age about 22, copied from daguerreotype taken about 1850." In actuality, Mary's fashions date the original image firmly to about 1855, when she would have been about 27.
"Blair & Son, Portrait and Landscape Photographers, 411 Main Street, Worcester, Mass."
Mary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 28 Nov 1828 to Nathaniel Brooks and Mary Chadwick. Mary's father was born in Haverhill, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, 3 Oct., 1797 to Samuel Brooks and Ann Butler Bedel. He passed away on 3 Nov., 1850, when Mary was about 22 years old. Mary's mother was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 3 July, 1794. She passed away on 31 Aug 1876 in Worcester. The couple had 8 children.
Mary Chadwick Brooks married John Anderson and they had at least one child, Grace Anderson, who was born 25 July, 1865, in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. Grace married Everett Wyman Stone, born 5 Oct., 1893, in Boston.
This pair of cabinet cards speaks volumes about the uncertainty of life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The same parlor tables flank two tiny white caskets. The small child and baby must be siblings who were taken away by a common tragedy. Our heart goes out to a family faced with such sorrow. The cabinet card marks are from the photographer, B. F. Golden of Olyphant, PA.
I attended our monthly local antique show yesterday with my sister and husband. The dealer who said he would bring a post mortem and the dealer who said he would have a life size Kodak Girl figure both failed to deliver. We were disappointed but were able to find two items. A young dealer had a group of cased images. He seemed new to the specialty and had several tintypes identified as "Ambro". One of the images caught our eye. It was a tintype in a rather tattered case. Was it a post mortem or only a sleeping baby? In any case it was a classic example of the "hidden mother" with the figure holding the baby wrapped in a paisley cloth. We decided to buy it and feel that it is indeed a post mortem. What do you think?
A scan of the tintype out of the mat, a close up of the baby and a view of the back with a civil war revenue stamp follows.
I have always wondered about this one. The young girl appears to be very rigid. Under magnification you can see where the figure of the girl has but cut out from another photograph. A strange one indeed.
Part of res noscenda / museum / insect / postmortem
DMC-G2 - P1500706 19.9.2012
#puppe #kokon #cocoon #chrysalis #chrysalises #chrysalides
OK you knew I could not stay away forever. I will give fickr a bit of a try to see if there is any reason to come back. This recent addition to our collection is a painted, full plate, framed tintype. We feel that it is a multiple image of a small child in life and propped up in a chair post mortem. The applied color over the seated child's dress is transparent which gives it a very strange etherial quality.
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"A. A. Baldwin, Photographer, Rooms over Post Office, Ludlow, Vt."
The photographer Ara A. Baldwin was born in 11 Nov., 1844, to Jefferson Baldwin and Calista Rice. He married Libbie Russell on 1 Jan., 1874, but the couple separated and later divorced. He lived and worked in Ludlow until his death on 10 Jan., 1931, at age 87.
13 April 2014. An abandoned and derelict mortuary at St. Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK.
A Year in Pictures image 103 of 365.
"Leo Weingartner, Cor. Sixth and Central Avenue, Cincinnati, O."
She is wearing a large-link chain and cross made of gutta percha. These large statement pieces here all the rage in the 1870s.
It's hard for mrwaterslide to say that one memorial card is sadder, or more affecting than another. Such weighing of grief seems tacky, at best. Should we make a list of the "Top Ten All-Time Most Tear-Inducing Memorial Cards"?
Yet, however, nevertheless, this particular card strikes me as profoundly moving. The photo, as you perhaps can discern, has a glass covering, and there is a little wire frame and stand attached, so that the photograph can be set out on a table top or mantelpiece. And, of course, there are the flowers, painted on the glass. The flowers mimic the look of other memorial cards, those produced in photographer's studios, but here, they are handcrafted. Lost in the mist of time is the maker, but one can imagine---a mother, sitting at a kitchen table or by a window in a parlor, each brushstroke applied a strand in the fabric of grief, or a grandmother, or a more distant relative or family friend, perhaps, someone with an amateur talent making a keepsake for a distraught friend or neighbor.
Without fail, the solace of memory brings the ache of memory. Without fail.
Carte de visite by F. Clapsadel of Painesville, Ohio. A young girl lay with a spray of flowers clenched in her hands. Her sunken eyesockets and drawn face suggest a long death struggle.
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"Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., Emporium of American and Foreign Stereoscopic views, chromos, albums, Magic Lantuerns, and slides, 591 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel, New York."
Charlotte Canda (3 Feb., 1828-3 Feb., 1845) was the daughter of Frenchman Charles Francis A. Canda (1792-1866), of Amiens, Somme, Picardie, and Adele Louisa Theriott (1804-1871), whom he wed 10 May, 1824.
Charlotte’s Mother’s ancestors were early French settlers of New York. Adele was the daughter of Gabriel L. Theriott and sister of Augustus B. Theriott (1808 – 1866), who inherited their father’s dry-goods business circa 1823 when he was still a teenager.
It has been put forth that Charlotte’s father was an officer in Napoleon’s army and that he was a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, after which he sailed for America. However, this is likely untrue. There was a Canda in the Battle of Waterloo, which occurred in June 1815, but that man was Charles’s brother, Louis-Joseph_Florimond Canda, who served many years as an officer in the French army, married Angeline, daughter of the Marquis De Balbi-Piovera from Genoa, emigrated to the United States, was an early settler of Chicago, and died there in 1886. The purported military backstories of both Candas are told almost identically in varying sources, indicating that Charles and Florimond have been conflated.
To read more about Charlotte Canda and her legend: dyingcharlotte.com/2018/10/31/all-tombs-around-are-in-its...
For my Cruel & Tender A2 level project I am looking into Victorian Post-Mortem Photography. This is the first shoot of the topic based around the 'Sleeping Beauty' photographs where the deceased would be placed as though they were only sleeping.
The woman kneeling at right is wearing mourning. This image demonstrates that while the period of mourning was long for women who undertook it, life did continue during that interval. This woman hugs the waist of her friend and is very much a member of the jovial group.
"The Windsor Family Portrait Gallery. Joseph Hall, Proprietor. 111 Fulton St., Brooklyn N.Y. Out-Door Photography, Residences, Machinery, Shipping, Monuments, &c."
© Ann Longmore-Etheridge Collection
On the reverse is written "Mary Chadwick Brooks Anderson, at age about 22, copied from daguerreotype taken about 1850." In actuality, Mary's fashions date the original image firmly to about 1855, when she would have been about 27.
"Blair & Son, Portrait and Landscape Photographers, 411 Main Street, Worcester, Mass."
Mary was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 28 Nov 1828 to Nathaniel Brooks and Mary Chadwick. Mary's father was born in Haverhill, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, 3 Oct., 1797 to Samuel Brooks and Ann Butler Bedel. He passed away on 3 Nov., 1850, when Mary was about 22 years old. Mary's mother was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 3 July, 1794. She passed away on 31 Aug 1876 in Worcester. The couple had 8 children.
Mary Chadwick Brooks married John Anderson and they had at least one child, Grace Anderson, who was born 25 July, 1865, in Roxbury, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. Grace married Everett Wyman Stone, born 5 Oct., 1893, in Boston.
Written on reverse: "Margaret Knox Smealley." Margaret, who is eluding me in the public records, is wearing what I consider to be the quintessential mourning gown and accessories of the Civil War Era. She wears a hair mourning brooch at her throat and her black ensemble is beautifully tailored.
"T. Hewitt, Amsterdam, N.Y."
"Keystone View Company 12426, Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo. Copyright 1901, by B. L. Lingley--The Funeral of President McKinley--The Solemn Pageant Leaving the Milburn Residence, Buffalo, N. Y., U. S. A."
Reverse: "President McKinley died at 2:15 a.m., Sept. 14th, at the residence of Mr. John Milburn, Buffalo, N. Y., and here at eleven o'clock, Sunday morning, the 15th, in the presence of members of the President's family, the cabinet officers, President Roosevelt, Gov. Odell, and others of national note. The funeral services began with the Rev. Dr. Locke, of the Delaware Avenue Methodist Church, officiated. The services began with the singing of 'Sing, Kindly Light," after which Dr. Locke read the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians The quartet then sang "Nearer My God to Thee," the President's favorite hymn, a prayer was offered, and Dr. Locke then pronounced the benediction. The first sad ceremonies completed, the remains were moved to City Hall, where they lay in state under eleven o'clock Sunday night for the mourning crowds to see. On Monday morning, the coffin, suitably attended by a guard of honor, was borne to the railway station, where a special train was waiting to convey all that was mortal of William McKinley to the national capital. All along the way there was a pathetic demonstration of the sorrow of the people. Flowers were strewn on the track, bells were tolled, hymns sung, and throughout the trip to Washington the funeral coaches passed through a continuous pageant of mourning."
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term.
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Since I like old Victorian pictures, especially postmortem photography a lot, I tried it for my sweet dolls.
It was suggested by the seller of this RPPC that this is "possibly a post-mortem" photograph. The girl certainly looks oddly posed and her eyes appear painted on but on balance I don't think is is a PM photo. You can read about my reasoning on my blog thestandingstone.com/darkness/2018/03/10/when-is-a-post-m...