e Victorian Era was a pretty morbid time in human history. One of the most unsettling traditions of the era was the practice of post-mortem photography. That is, photographing the dead. By today’s standards, this is would be pretty taboo, but that the time it was seen as quite normal.
That doesn’t mean that seeing those pictures now makes them any less creepy, in fact it probably makes them even more creepy. Here are 21 of the most unsettling examples of Victorian post-mortem photography we could find.
1.) Contrary to being creepy, these death photographs were meant to serve as mementos of the deceased loved one.
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2.) Because of that, many photographers tried to make it appear as if the person is actually alive.
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3.) Photographers employed a variety of tricks to make their subjects look more life like