![]() With a Bachelor's in English and Master's in Journalism from the University of Iowa, she taught students of Iowa's Writer's Workshop, then at Northwestern University, Marquette and Mount Mary. Her popular blog with 100,000+ readers has led to an upcoming novel! Growing up as an Iowa farmgirl, rodeo queen and voracious reader, her love of land, lore and literature fired her writing muse. Burns Archive.ĭeborah Hufford is an award-winning author and magazine editor with a passion for history. The photograph was taken by Alexandre Lacassagne, MD. But, in fact, it is an image of an obviously once-beautiful victim inflicted with Lupus and Corneal Leukoma in 1895. (13) BEWARE: There are many examples of post-mortem photographs that are hoaxes on the web! This image is often passed off as a post-mortem photograph. Parsons, his wife and three children were murdered by Joseph Hamilton and thrown into the river. (12) A post-mortem photograph of a murdered family in 1906 near Success, Missouri. The mortician arranged the wife so that her head rested upon her husband, hiding her right temple wound. (The mother, who had been suspected of suffering a mental illness, shot her husband in the heart while he was kissing her, then shot her baby in the chest and herself in the temple. (11) Emil, Maria and baby Anna Keller, post-mortem photograph of a murder-suicide in 1894. Here a pioneer mother is heartbreakingly photographed with her daughter before burial. (10) Child mortality on the frontier was high. ![]() The girl on the right, alive, rests her head on her dead sister’s shoulder. Here twin girls dressed in matching plaid dresses and their hair curled in ringlets pose. ![]() (9) Children were often asked to pose with their dead siblings, holding their hands, hugging them, or holding them around the shoulders. Here a deceased man is photographed with his two dogs. ![]() Dead children were often posed on a sofa, bed or coffin in a reclining position as in a peaceful “last sleep.” (8) Victorians sometimes photographed their loved ones with their most cherished possessions or pets. (7) Live siblings were often photographed with their dead brother or sister, each holding their favorite dolls, toys or pets to soften the sadness of such a scene. Exposure times were long in early photography and live subjects had to remain still for up to a minute and a half so the image would not be blurred. (6) This late 1800s photograph shows parents posing with their deceased daughter, whose eyes were left open to look more lifelike. Here an elegant mirror adorned with roses in the foreground reflects not only the deceased, but the furnishings of her room in the background to give a more intimate feel. (5) Various posing techniques were used in posthumous photography to elicit a nostalgic feeling. But the effect could be ghastly or artful, depending on the talent and expertise of the artist. (3 & 4) Closed eyes of the dead were sometimes painted in to appear open and give the impression of a living subject. ![]() (2) It was common, especially for post-mortem photography of children, to arrange the child in a lifelike pose with favorite dolls, stuffed animals, toys, or siblings, as if providing companions for the child in death and sentimentalizing the child’s life. However, sometimes small children could be positioned upright. This would have been too difficult, especially for adults. (Contrary to many internet myths, postmortem photography did not usually prop deceased up into standing positions. PHOTOS: (1) Living siblings are often photographed with a deceased brother or sister, in part to have a full family portrait of the children, and to depict the lost child as “living.” In this photograph, the youngest child has passed away and has been propped up. ![]()
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