Several months ago I posted an item about the old practice of having your picture taken with (recently) dead family members. Today I encountered an unusual example of the genre; rather than depicting a mother holding a dead infant, it shows a small child on the lap of her dead mother.
However bizarre the image may seem to us today, the rationale of the husband/father is clear - to preserve for the little girl a photo of her being held by her mother. It's rather touching, when you think about it...
Found at It'll Take the Snap Out of Your Garters.
Not quite as creepy, I have a picture of my mother's family made after her mother died. My mother was 5 and her sister 6 when she died and they didn't have a picture of the four of them together. My mother remembered that her Aunt stood in for the picture and they replaced her head with that from a portrait my grandparents had stood for. I guess it was a 1920's version of photoshopping.
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