Oct 02, 2001 - Sale 1907

Sale 1907 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 2,185
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(POST-MORTEMS) american
Poignant collection containing approximately 100 hard and paper images depicting post-mortems, most of them of children and of infants, comprising 40 cartes-de-visite, 20 cabinet cards, assorted late 19th-century mounted paper images, tintypes in various sizes, and ambrotypes (including one quarter-plate), and one uncased daguerreotype; includes 2 memorial scenes. Albumen, printing-out paper and silver prints, various sizes; nearly all of them are on the original mounts. 1850s-1920s
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This collection was compiled by a woman whose sibling died as an infant. Approximately half of the photographs are housed in a 1940s candy box decorated with a violet ribbon.