1930s Post Mortem Hand Colored Cabinet Card chromolithograph for flimsy

for flimsy

Rising in popularity in the 1830s

A precursor to the pocket watch

Both the pearls and the turquoise crisscross on a slight diagonal

Vase has a hole in the back so it can be used as a wall pocket

1930s Post Mortem Hand Colored Cabinet Card chromolithograph for flimsyIn a time before modern medicine and hospitals, maternal and infant mortality rates were high. With the invention of photography it became common practice to photograph the deceased. These images were kept as keepsakes, placed in the home as a memorial and tribute to their loved ones. This practice was popular throughout the Victorian period but began to decline in the 1930s likely with how accessible photography became to the masses. Most people were