The Strangest Tradition of the Victorian Era: Post-Mortem Photography
Before we judge, this is the dawn of photography and most people didn’t have pictures done at birth, so this might be the last time someone saw their loved on (or the only image they have to remember them).
From IO9:
After the invention of daguerrotype, the memorializing habits of people have changed: they’ve chosen the cheap, higher quality photographs instead of expensive and not so lifelike paintings. Painting dead people was common for centuries, so it’s no surprise that, in the Victorian Era, post-mortem photos also came into fashion. Here are some of the strangest ones.
