Found on the wonderful ‘Historical Indulgences‘ blog, collated by Tuesday Johnson.
ca. 1864, [post mortem portrait of two children], Squyer Studio
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Less sinister, more cackle-worthy. And fabulously naff 
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This post mortem cabinet card photo is currently for sale – I’m sorely tempted, but just can’t afford to get sucked into collecting. Bah.
If you’re interested, you can find the details here
Photography by Wright Photographer, Fennimore, Wisconsin – date unknown. I’m not entirely convinced that it was taken after death, as the man’s face looks – to me, at least – as if it still has muscle tone. That said, it does bear the giveaway ‘dotted eyes’ that are often seen when a photographer has edited the image after printing.
What do you think?
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The Embalming Jars of Frederik Ruysch
Thanks to my lovely friend Jenny for sending me this link. I would have very much liked to have been friends with Frederik, I think.
These remarkable ‘still life’ displays blurred the boundary between the demonstrative element of scientific preservation and the symbolic and allegorical of vanitas art.
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Ooh, it’s like something out of a BRILLIANT old horror movie…
Post mortem photograph courtesy of The Burns Archive, via Morbid Anatomy.
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AAARRRGGGHHHH! WANT! WANT ALL OF THE THINGS!!!!
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I don’t often include gravestone photographs, but I couldn’t resist this one. Taken in Roermond, Newfoundland in 1888, it is apparently ‘the graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together’.
Photo courtesy of History Pics on Twitter
Thanks to Emma for sending me the link.
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Small but perfectly formed…
Unfortunately I don’t have a bigger version of this post mortem photograph, nor do I have any background information. I think it comes from an eBay listing, but can’t be sure – I found it in a random collection of images on a dormant website (which is all too often the case with these photos).
You can quite clearly see the metal prop that’s been used to tip the little coffin up to get a decent angle for the photographer.
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