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Please note :These pictures may be distressing to some...Violet
http://io9.com/the-strangest-tradition-of-the-victorian-era-post-mort-472772709
After the invention of daguerrotype, the memorializing habits of people have changed: they've chosen the cheap, higher quality photographs instead of expensive and not so lifelike paintings. Painting dead people was common for centuries, so it's no surprise that, in the Victorian Era, post-mortem photos also came into fashion. Here are some of the strangest ones.
Please note :These pictures may be distressing to some...Violet
http://io9.com/the-strangest-tradition-of-the-victorian-era-post-mort-472772709
