Civil War era post-mortem cdv with mournful poem verso.  Last line of text cut off, as, sadly, was this child's life. Post-mortem photography was commonplace in the 19th century as early as the 1840s, a tradition that seems at odds with today's death-denying culture.
Price $125.

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