Victorian Post Mortem Photography -WARNING NOT FOR THE SENSITIVE VIEWER!

I have an interest in Victorian post mortem photography. These are some of the photos I've collected from onilne sources. These pictures are of children in the Victorian era. In that time period it was common for families to have photos taken of their children after death because photography was expensive and other family members couldn't always make it to the funeral and they wanted a momento of the deceased. . WARNING: If you're sensitive to pictures of death please do not view this video

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[KARSDAY]

I couldn't imagine anything more heartbreaking than being a parent holding their dead child.

[StateDirectorOfNJ]

So yeah... Youtube adventure stops here cuz im freaked the F@%k out

[kribaby76]

my mother passed away in 07 and to tell the truth i wish we had photographed her. It was the last time i could look upon her beautiful face.

[Libra13Witch]

@cautionillhugyou Oh now aren't you cute, a little internet troll with more than one YouTube account. This is MY channel and it being MY channel I have the right to say who posts and who doesn't post on it. If you weren't here to start shit then you wouldn't have created a new channel and come back. Guess what troll. You're blocked again. Oh and if you come back again I'll report you for harassment and bullying. There are laws against that you know. Goodbye.

[rainbowdashtastic]

@DanLujan, actually, most of the pictures with babies are most likely post mortem. The mortality rate was high,most families couldn't afford to have pictures taken regularly, so pictures were often taken after death.pictures took a fairly long amount of time to develop, longer than a small child could sit still. but, this was before they knew much about medicine, so possibly the child has been sedated. also, there's some shadowing around the eyes which looks like they have begun to decompose.

[DanLujan]

At first, I was fascinated by this stuff. After I researched it and thought about it more, I realized: THE BEST POST MORTEM PHOTOS ARE PROBABLY FAKE.

Unless they are lying in a coffin or have some other clear indication, there is no reason to assume the subject is dead.

Painted eyeballs and posing stands = someone blinked or a way to keep still.

[eltonjazz]

The Victorians in England produced books of the people who had died in their families. These were passed down to the next generation, to preserve the family history. To us they seem obnoxious and morbid, to them they felt it preserved a continuity of their family history and standing in their communities. They were called books of the dead here in England and most families had them produced. This principle was taken to the USA with the settling quakers. I think I'll Pass. Thank you ;)

[Libra13Witch]

@imacceptingbut Did you come here to be constructive or to act like an idiot internet troll because you're life and world are so small and insignificant that you just have absolutely nothing better to do but start shit with people you don't know.

[foxgloved1]

@davidls11 in those days you had to stand motionless for 5 minutes in order for the the prints not to be blurry,and that was the only way they could photo the little ones,was when after they died. it's sad seeing the familys in mourning

[Libra13Witch]

@AbileneTexasMom  If you really think that I think that well maybe you need to have your head examined.

[AbileneTexasMom]

@Libra13Witch Do you really think that? Your nuts!

[TheLeftylegend14]

this just goes to show how far we've come as far as medicine and what we know about child birth.