Roseina Taylor’s grave as it looks today. Located in All Saints Cemetery, Brightlingsea, UK.
Click to view Archive Image #2541, showing Roseina’s young daughter mourning at her grave in 1890 (Thanatos.net members only)
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Suicide Note
1929 suicide note of Sigmund Borowick.
Click to view his photo and memorial on FindAGrave
Daguerreotype Restoration
Original Pamphlet, Conjoined Twins (Archive Medical Section #2032)
Click to enlarge.
Rare four page pamphlet with the history of conjoined twins born in 1889.
The original cabinet card photo of the twins is available in our vintage medical photography section:
Conjoined Twins (Access: Thanatos Archive members only)
September 1: Open Membership Day
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New Site Additions
Just a few of our most recent updates, including a drowned boy, quadruplets, a premortem, and a very unusually-posed post-mortem.
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Full View of “Our Babies” (Archive #2483)
Full view of Archive image #2483, “Our Babies”.
Click here for a closer view of the infants (Thanatos.net members only!)
Grave of the Conkling Children (Archive Image #2033)
The heavily damaged grave of Charles and Eliza Conkling, in Mount Hope Cemetery, Urbana, Illinois. Photo credit: Greg Kimberley (FindAGrave).
****** Click to view the post-mortem photographs of the children (Thanatos.net members only)
Grave of Milton Okey (Archive Image #2474)
Interesting grave of Milton Okey, located at Olive Cemetery in Caldwell, Ohio. Photograph credit: Pamela Myers-Grewell (FindAGrave).
Click to view Miltons post mortem photo (Thanatos.net members only)
| Inscription: Milton Son of William C. and Ruth Okey Died August 7th, 1866 Age 2 yrs, 4 mos, 5 ds |
New Site Additions
This week’s additions, including a post-mortem of two siblings, a boy propped upright with a book, and an interesting “copy” CDV.
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