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The second to last one, the baby looks like it passed out from too much booze.
I was reading up on the Lizzie Borden case when I came across these pictures.
Apparently, people liked to pose and take pictures with their dead loved ones.
The second to last one, the baby looks like it passed out from too much booze.
That is creepy stuff
Racist pics. Why is the 3rd photo the only one thats colored? HMMM
Geez! Times surely have changed. I hate seeing casket pics or going to funerals, but these are freaking morbid as !
Yeah. My grandfather had a few of these types of pics from when he was growing up. I guess it's a generational thing.
I think a long time ago, it wasn't creepy to them. Probably has to do with the times maybe.
My dad had 13 brothers and sisters and countless cousins. When I was a kid it seemed like every other weekend we were loading up in the '59 Oldsmobile and driving to east Texas for another ing open casket, Baptist funeral. . That was creepy ...standing in line, women sobbing, etc. to look at dead people I didn't even know...then we get there and you have to STAND there for the appropriate minute or so reflecting on all the memories I didn't have of them...*shudder*...I could barely see over the lid so I was like leaning over the edge face to face with these dead blue people.
I STILL ING HATE FUNERALS AND AVOID THEM AT ALL COSTS.
I'm not even having one.
My instructions are to wait about a month and then have a party.
Was the username "Chris Benoit" rejected?
The second to last one, the baby looks like it passed out from too much booze.
Freakiest one.
I have a morbid fascination with all things turn of the century (c. 1900) for some reason...especially photos and films.
No one smiles n ..
It's not that unusual, really. At several points throughout history and in a number of different cultures it was pretty common when someone died to make a death mask as a record of the deceased body. Photography just provided a new way of recording that same information.
It makes more sense when you consider the use of photography at its start. It was understood as a scientific medium, rather than an artistic one, and was favored for its ability to record and reproduce a faithful, factual version of a particular scene. Portraits were therefore not seen as an artistic representation, like a painted portrait would have been, and were not created as objects of aesthetic beauty. Photography was used for death images, and the like, because it was believed to be the most scientifically accurate to record someone's likeness or to have a lasting image of a loved one.
They're from the era when people had funerals in their living rooms instead of being gouged by the funeral homes.
AS for the not smiling in older pics... The exposure time on the cameras was very long, which meant you had to stay perfectly still the entire time. So people stood very still and somber in order not to ruin the picture.
I encountered several of those while going thru my late in-laws' house. Didn't seem creepy to me, just came across as historical record keeping.
Some of y'all are showing your age.
They often sat in special chairs that held their heads upright.
Yeah, I read up on it when I first stumbled upon them. Just got a creepy vibe when I first saw them. Some of them still do.
I first saw these types of things when I saw that movie The Others. That was the freakiest part of the movie for me. Never knew they existed as a pastime.
Interesting. I have never heard about that before.
photos without color very creepy
it wasn't a past time you just took photos with your dead ones back then if you had the money to show you were wealthy
BTW, all I could think of were these damn photos while I was locking up and turning off the lights last night. Thanks
says the person with a ghost in their house
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