Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Also from BoingBoing, Another article on Victorian postmortem photography, real and fake - yes, there are counterfeit dead baby pictures out there.

Ghost Babies

Mark Dery
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/25/ghost-babies.html

The traffic in dead babies is booming, on eBay.

There are daguerreotypes of dead babies, ambrotypes of dead babies, tintypes of dead babies, cartes de visite of dead babies, cabinet cards of dead babies; dead babies from the Victorian era, the Edwardian era, the roaring '20s...

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