Antique Post Mortem Glass Plate Negative with Baby and Mother James bone drawing looking like a shy but

looking like a shy but friendly guy standing in the corner of the room

which are both familiar in format but also tell us much about the times: "By a patent machine for making combs the teeth of two combs can be put in three minutes

the basket itself (not including handle) measures i3 1/8" in diameter x 1 3/8"

though once you've held this in your hand it may be fairly hard to part with

which have a nice feel in the hand

Antique Post Mortem Glass Plate Negative with Baby and Mother James bone drawing looking like a shy butA beautiful, moving glass plate negative post mortem photograph, with the expression on the face of the mother (best seen in digital positive) just devastating. The casket itself is shrouded in fabric, and the hands of the child clasped before her as she lies. My photos of this are not great (not scanned, just photographed in my own makeshift way, yielding some red along one edge in one photo and some uneven lighting), but the image appears sharp and