Mourning portraits were the practice of photographing the recently deceased. These photographs
of deceased loved ones were a normal part of American and European
culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Commissioned by
grieving families, postmortem photographs not only helped in the
grieving process, but often represented the only visual remembrance of
the deceased and were among a family's most precious possessions.
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Glackmeyer, Jeanette
Groth, Claudia Severine and Millie Cecelia
Mills, George Lee
Poe, Edgar Allan (1927)
Powell, Della (1894)
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