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From: "Rene'" <>
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] photos of the dead
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:22:32 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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Really. Wow.

I think what is really sad is the fact that these pictures meant something
to someone and now they are going to who ever, we can only hope that they
end up in a descendents home some where down the line.

Rene'

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From: Tom Buffington
Date: 1/21/2007 11:12:54 AM
To: Rene';
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] photos of the dead

Actually, if you look on EBay, these types of photos are big sellers, I've
seen them go for big money. Go figure.


On 1/21/07, Rene' <> wrote:
I've heard a couple of different explanations, one that the pictures were
taken because someone wasn't there and they wanted to send the picture to
them, and another because they just didn't have any pictures of that person,
so they did it at death.

I have to say when I saw the picture of my great uncle as a kid, I thought
how gross and I really couldn't look at it, but now as an adult, I see the
value in it. We don't have that many pictures of family from the early 1900
s, so even one taken at death gives a little more insight to a family that I
never knew.

I'm not sure how many of you looked at the sites that I sent, but there is
one picture of a young woman whose mother couldn't bear to part with her,
the picture was taken 9 days after death, she was posed sitting in a chair.
That is what amazes me, the lengths that people went to, to have these
pictures taken.

Rene'

-------Original Message-------

From: Patty Gaddis
Date: 1/20/2007 10:36:19 PM
To: Rene';
Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] photos of the dead

There is supposedly a family photo somewhere of my grandmother's sister in
the casket. Supposedly she died in childbirth and the photo is of her and
the baby. No one seems to know what happened to it any more. This was
taken in 1939 in Springfield, IL. We always thought it was taken because
my grandmother, living in California, couldn't attend the funeral.

Patty


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