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October 22, 2005

post mortem

post mortem


Photographs taken after the death of a child were popular in the mid nineteenth century.

Daguerreotype, 1850s, eastern USA.

October 16, 2005

gravestone, Bamburgh, Northumberland UK

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In the graveyard of Saint Aidan's church - built in the 13th century. Founded c635.