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Notes on the back of Mary Jordan’s post mortem photo.
Mary’s grave in 2014, located at Lodi Memorial Cemetery. Photograph credit: GramlynB (FindAGrave).
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Fred Schoonmaker’s funeral, 1920.
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Cadaver in dissection room. Columbus, Ohio, 1897.
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Close-up of man’s face.
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The grave of the deceased infant twins, Jacob & Joseph Lewis, who died two days apart, in 1874. Photograph credit: Jen Snoots.
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Close-up of a dead girl’s neck, possibly dressed with medical bandaging.
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Memorial service booklet accompanying the post-mortem photo of Edith Mauzy Speiden.
Beautiful 1840s mourning lithograph. This is the same lithograph seen behind the woman in the source image.
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A second photo (1/4 tintype) of the “standing” boy, this one showing him lying down, possibly in a church pew.
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Original letter accompanying Helen Wiebe’s post-mortem photograph.
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