[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Sadly, in the 19th century, people took photos of their dead babies to try to remember and memorialize them.***

[miss marmelstein]

What the hell is that?

I’ve seen photos of poor little babies dead of cholera (at a museum in New Orleans) propped up in bed, photographed by their parents as a remembrance.

Every century has its eccentricities and rituals. One can only imagine what future generations will think of us!