The peculiar and morbid Victorian mourning traditions and post-mortem photography – despite the worry of being buried alive, people were comfortable with death

This strange image is just one of Black & White Photos That Cannot Be Explained"(naw, this ones easy. The kid is painting a face on the older gentleman, who has male pattered balding. His head is tilted toward the camera is all. Not so odd.

Morbid Anatomy: Dental casts of the Extraordinary Aztec Children, 1853 : Guest Post by Kristin Hussey, Hunterian Museum, London: microcephaly

Visions Within Mechanism Industrial Surrealism by Jeffrey Scott - Baby got back (a weird one haha)!

A Victorian "hidden mother' memento mori / post mortem photo / photograph. In the Victorian Era, women holding infants were often covered; because the photograph is meant to be cropped to show only the infant.

maudelynn: “ Early Creepy as Heck Halloween Ball Portrait (and now I am off into my day. queue on!

September As 'Strike Up the Band' tryouts began with difficulty in Philadelphia, rehearsals for 'Smarty' (soon to be re-named 'Funny Face') began with Fred & Adele Astaire

Group of Victorian women facing backward. Unidentified photographer Ladies' hairstyles 1880 (ca) Tintype 7 x 5 in

Victorian Circus Freaks Photographed by Charles Eisenmann

art and vintage photos - Patsy Ruth Miller, Laura La Plante, Esther Ralston, early

Tbh this is kind of a mourning outfit moment. A woman in a mourning dress On the back she’s identified as “Alice Gibson” and the studio is “J Howarth, Whetley Lane Bradford”.

“ Victorian mourning dress and veil - Mourning attire in the Victorian period was very strict. A women who was widowed was expected to wear all black crepe, long black dress, a black bonnet was worn which was adorned with a long black veil.

Mourning ensemble People and Brands: Retailer: L.

Mourning Dress, Date: 190204