1930s Post Mortem Hand Colored Cabinet Card chromolithograph Gold can be gently polished

Gold can be gently polished with a jewelry polishing cloth

His head even nods when he moves

no two are exactly alike

Both the pearls and the turquoise crisscross on a slight diagonal

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1930s Post Mortem Hand Colored Cabinet Card chromolithograph Gold can be gently polishedIn 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