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06-02-2013, 05:47 PM
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Re: **19th Century Photos of Dead People**
A few people have mentioned the eyes being open-today we use "eye caps" like this to prevent that: http://www.amrainstruments.com/occulist.html You put them under the eyelids and they hold them in place. I think these are a recent invention. |
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08-09-2013, 03:57 PM
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 My Rank: PRIVATE Poster Rank:6080 Female Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 38 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Quoted: 4 Post(s)
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Re: **19th Century Photos of Dead People**
There was a time when the only picture ever taken of someone was when they died. Getting your picture taken was very expensive, so death was the only time an expense like that would be approved of. It used to be the family's responsibility to bathe and prepare the body for viewing. This usually took place on the kitchen table, the same table that a lot of the family's babies were born on as well. Embalming happened in the deceased home as well. I can't image doing that today. I would imagine that it would make getting on with life after the death that much harder.  |
