Imagine the 300,000 babies every year that are killed beford they are even born! That is incredibly tragic. Its amazing how people have been brainwashed to think it's ok to do.
People forget we aren’t even 200 years past this being the norm and we only got here thanks to modern medicine yet they want to totally disregard medications and vaccines
The photographers did the best they could and with great respect. We all take things for granted today. That cost a lot of money for the family and the only image they had of their loved one. It wasn't affordable. TY for sharing this part of history.
These sad photos are a cure for any belief that life was better in the "good old days." I am grateful to live in a time when the deaths of babies and children, mothers in childbirth, and young people are rare. I wonder how many of these people passed due to tuberculosis, the scourge of their time. And the babies dying of fever and respiratory infections that a quick trip to urgent care can now remedy. Beautiful record of those times, thank you.
Many people have died to the lack of knowledge and medicine back in the day. Yet so many people today complain about Covid. Imagine if those complaining lived how it was back in the day?
Years ago I was a telephone repairman or Ma Bell in Charlotte, NC. I was sent to Settlers Cemetery downtown which is the oldest in Charlotte. As I wandered around I couldn't help seeing `all the children's graves. So many were newborns but a lot of them were under age 5. A few of them were mother and child graves. We had an instance of that in my own family in the 1930s. My mother's mother had two stillborn boys. It explains the nine year gap between her and her sister. My wife has a stillborn brother. My mother carried 8 babies to term, no losses. 150 years ago A woman might be fortunate to see half of them grow to adulthood. I also noticed a lot of deaths from 1918. I guessed that the Spanish Flu had hit the area. Medicine is so advanced today and can clear so many diseases that we're shocked when we see a death from a disease more easily treated than in the past.
@@robertcuminale1212 @ivorybow There is a video here on TH-cam on a channel that discusses history and they did a documentary about the dangers of Victorian living and it was exposing how they'd cover up sour milk with Borax and things like that, and it was one of the biggest sources of TB and child deaths. Just awful 😔
Part of me wants to think these photos are terribly ghoulish yet I find myself captivated by them. There is beauty and art to this style of photography. Thank you for sharing them with us.
WOW! What a collection of photos? I cannot imagine how difficult it would have been for a parent or parents to have photos taken with their deceased child. In some shots, some of the people don't look dead. All those precious children. A different time. A different era. The music is beautiful.
I totally agree.The anguish and grief still show on the faces of the mothers and fathers...How fortunate we are,even in this time of a pandemic ,to have such excellent medical care available to us and especially to children.Our diets play a large positive in that arena as well,in addition to knowledge regarding sanitation etc.our mortality rates are so mech better and many of us have no idea just how much worse it was up until the 1940's onward with regards to life expectancy.
It's very difficult but it's the only chance to get a photo of your loved one. What do you do, try to smile, cry or be indifferent? I tried to smile but yes you knew the hurt/ grief I was trying to hide.
@@kimberlypatton9634 it’s vaccination against all the childhood diseases that allow our children to live to adulthood nowadays. Postmortem photography became popular in the Victorian era where sanitation was already widely recognized and practiced as a health benefit. However, infant and mother mortality remained high because of viral diseases and lack of obstetrical knowledge (it was still illegal to perform autopsy so they had no idea to the workings of the human body). Just one tear in the perineal area or a piece of placenta left in the womb would kill a mother in about 10 days. The industrial revolution ushered in advancements in mass production but it also encouraged cheats as there were no government standards. Milk for babies was one such. Mother’s were encouraged to use bottle feeding to “free” themselves but the milk was cut and polluted with garbage so babies literally starved to death while being fed. I’m glad I live in modern times
I can’t imagine the only picture of a loved one, being a death photo. I take so many pictures that people complain, however, when they need a picture, guess who they call!
The babies and children are the hardest to look at. So innocent like they're sleeping. So many died in infancy and childhood and family never had photos until these were taken. We should be thankful today for cameras, androids etc. I take dozens of pics of my now grown autistic son every week plus video.
Grim that photos were taken after death since photos were considered a luxury. At least they got to keep a memory of their loved one. Beautifully haunting.
Jack, I am a long-time follower of your work. I am proud to say that my senior dissertation at university is on the subject of postmortem photography, funeral ephemera, and memory. Beyond the Dark Veil brought me beyond my view of these pictures as simple 'memento mori.' These are objects that exhibit profound familial love. I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate this collection of photography and what an honor it is to study it. Cheers from Michigan.
These images capture such a tender moment. Really touches your heart to see so many children. Thank you for saving these photos from being lost forever, and I too came from forgotten faces channel.
Some people find these creepy...some fascinating...but if you really look, you'll see tenderness and the heartbreak of people whose loss cut so deep that having this final...and perhaps only...image of their loved one was their only comfort. It's really a sad, yet beautiful thing.
Thank you for showing actual post mortem pictures instead of the fakes that have been circulating on TH-cam. I find them sad but beautiful at the same time
When I first found the postmortem photographs from the 19th century, I was sad and curious why it was done. My husband had the great response: "at the time, photography was expensive, done in a studio. These photographs for some were the only reminders that these family members existed..." I saw some photographs of my relatives from earlier in the 20th century. It is not as common now. May all the people in these photographs Rest in Peace.
Back in the mid forties my grandfather's older brother and his wife lost their 4 month old daughter. The only picture they ever had of her was of her in her little casket taken at the cemetery right before she was laid to rest.
@@vickisawyer7405 Z Polski. Mój tata zmarł w 2012r. (to straszne ale dla mnie to wciąż jakby było wczoraj) Mam zdjęcie w kaplicy, Tata leży w trumnie a mama, siostra i ja stoimy obok. Nigdy nie oglądam tego zdjęcia. Tata zmarł nagle, wracał z wakacji, ( męska wyprawa na ryby na Morzu Północnym), zasnął na promie z Ystad do Gdańska i się nie obudził...
@@Florka100 I'm very sorry. I don't have any pics of my loved ones, except when they were alive. I know others who have done the coffin pictures. I guess it depends on what comforts you most. My brother died in 1991 and I still miss him all of the time.
When my great grandma was a kid back in the 1920s her brother died of an infected blister on his foot from wearing new shoes. If they had antibiotics back then, he would had lived. He was only 8 or 9 years old.
My auntie’s trunk we inherited had several postcards of a child relative in her casket. My granny said they do this because it very well could be the only picture they get because it was expensive.
All those little angels 😇. So young n precious. Hope the families were reunited when they joined the little ones. N the older people who passed joined their families as well. May all be resting in peace. Thank you for the thoughtful pictures.
"Oh my beloved , though art come for me!" Thats what most.of their expressions look like to me. so beautiful! To think, these are most likely the only photos taken of these people, as a momento for those who loved them.
Vary often in those days the only photo people had when someone died would be this as photography was so expensive..they wanted to have something to remember their loved one by. I’m sorry for the loss of your son…I lost my first daughter to.❤
My condolences on such a profound loss. As mentioned above in those days sometimes the only photograph they would have of their loved one was after they had died.
@@narelle-creative-arts Don't forget to mention that photography was a very lengthy process too- sometimes it could be days before the photographer came in so the corpses would sometimes rot before the picture was taken unfortunately.
I worked in a cemetery and it was the little ones that bothered everyone. Most people didn’t come back to work after they had to lay a baby or small child to rest. It’s very personal just you a shovel and your thoughts. I don’t think that I would be able to work that close to the dead but it’s crazy what you can get used to.
You are absolutely right Chris. I was an oncology nurse and lost count of how many dying people's hands I held over 25 yrs. of working. I got used to it, but never over it.
@Milk Andhoney First responders are heroes! They are there for us when we are in desperate need of them - and I thank them for saving my life twice when I would have otherwise have died from my injuries - and both times were the result of drunk drivers in the offending vehicles. I not only owe them my life, but also the ability to learn how to walk again, because they took perfect care not to damage my spinal cord on one very difficult extraction. I'm grateful to your son for his service 😍 He's a hero in my eyes ♥️ XX
I play Taps for funerals sometimes. I end up standing more-or-less at attention during the service, so as not to distract, but this one time, I realized that all aroudn me were little grave stones with lambs on top of them. So many, like eight or ten....I just felt a hint of the intense grief that had been experienced in that spot and had to move. Couldn't take it. All those little ones.
@Milk Andhoney Thank you, Milk Andhoney. Indeed, they were life-altering experiences on both occasions.. and now I talk to Yr12 students about why drink driving is a crime. You have every right to be proud of your son - FR's risk everything to serve the community and make the world a better place to live in. Thanks for your kind reply, and I hope you have a lovely day : ) Be blessed 🙏🏻😍
The ones of babies and children are so sad and the young Mother with her newborn. Imagine living out on a lonesome, windswept prairie, no neighbors for miles and miles, your husband is often gone for days and your child is your constant companion and reason for being......and then that sweet child dies. The grief and loneliness, the utter despair of the poor Mother- and Father, too. What a lonely life.
These photographs are very sad, especially when they are of babies and little children, but they are something I never knew existed! I literally cry looking, mostly of photographs of babies, so many who probably never saw the light of day, and little, innocent children taken from this earth for reasons too numerous to try and guess. The folk(s) who have this site, Thank you Kindly for sharing!
My grandmother who was born in 1903 told me that in the past they did not give you a name until you were a one year old. You were just called baby until then. Babies died frequently so you did not want to get to emotionally attached to them.
А моя бабушка родилась в 1892 году, но подобного я не слышала. Знаю только, что имена детям давал священник и если какая-то семья была неугодна ему, то он мог дать их ребенку нелепое имя. У моей бабушки дети умирали в младенчестве, так когда рождался следующий ребенок, священник, чтоб не заморачиваться, велел оставить ему метрику умершего ребенка. И так было не раз. У моей бабушки был не один такой случай. И когда у бабушки умер очередной ребенок, не знаю уже какой по счёту, их было больше десяти, она взмолилась. "Господи, я так устала от этих смертей. Дай мне отдохнуть от детей хоть лет десять." И ровно десять лет бабушка не рожала и ровно через десять лет родилась моя мама, бабушке было 44 года, а деду 54. Такая история.
Mia bisnonna ha partorito 10 figli ,dei quali 6 sono morti di una rara malattia...... piccolissimi!!!!! Mio bisnonno diceva: chiamo la levatrice e compro la bara!!!
Yes, we are so blessed in modern life in many ways. Both of my sons caught pneumonia around 18 months of age. One hundred years ago, they would both be dead instead of being healthy young men.
God bless you ! Thank you for shareing the lost one's memories here. 💖 Thank you for remembering the lost ones here with so much respect and beauitful music. Also thank you for letting Ron from Faces Of The Forgotten use some of your pictures. Gone but not forgotten. 🤘👻💖
I know these photographs seem gruesome and terrifying but sometimes families want something to remember their loved ones. Some of the babies and young children are so peaceful, they look like angels.
Me too, simply marvelous collection! You deserve so many more subs!!! I hope that everyone from Ron's channel, discovers this channel! Thank you for sharing the collection that you've amassed!
Dietro il loro sembrare macabro per qualcuno io trovo queste foto stupende. Durante tutto il video ho recitato l'Eterno Riposo. Furono anime che abitarono questo mondo come noi. E come dicevo, queste foto sono una loro traccia ai posteri. Toccherà a tutti noi, ma per adesso proviamo a gioire della vita che abbiamo e non essere tristi per quella che non abbiamo (fama, ricchezza, salute o altro). Accontentiamoci... Viva la vita...
The photos with babies or children are heartbreaking. Not only did the little one lose their life but the Mother went through such danger back then to have them. It is still dangerous now but back then there was usually not even a doctor present. A simple infection was a death sentence. These children were treasured and loved. I read a book once called Pioneer Women. It was stories of women moving westward in the 1800's and some stories of their lives once settled. One lady lived with her husband and their young son in a primitive cabin. She was pregnant but not due to give birth for a few weeks. Her husband needed to sell their grain and took the wagon full to town about 50 miles away. He promised he would be back in a matter of days. They had no neighbors on the vast prairie. It started raining the day he left and just got worse and worse by the hour. Within a few days he had gotten to town but due to the heavy flooding the bridge over a wide raging river washed away preventing him coming right back. They couldn't even try to rebuild the bridge or ferry anyone across because it was still raining and the waters were too dangerous. Back at the cabin the wife of course grew more worried as the days passed, their food dwindled and she felt like she would deliver soon. After a week and a half she went into labor. With the help of her 8 year old son she gave birth. A day later a pack ofwolves found their cabin and started slamming the door. Their door had no lock so they barricaded it as best they could but the wolves came back at night and pushed the door open a few inches. She had never shot her husband's rifle before but she pointed it at the door and fired away. She heard yapping and the Wolves ran off. She barricaded the door again. The next day she found a dead wolf outside their door. By the time her husband returned a few weeks later he was shocked to see the dead wolf that she had moved against the shed nearby. Inside he found the three of them cozy by a nice fire but with little food remaining. The adults burst into tears. They moved back East a month later. People are so soft now. Our ancestors went through so much. I wonder how many times her story has been told to family and friends in 150 years?!
Cuanta tristeza la de esas madres y padres que perdieron a sus pequeños, supongo que el consuelo era al menos tener una foto de ellos, aun cuando fuese fallecidos, y uns manera de decirles , que nunca los olvidarian. A diderencia de nuetra epoca que retratamos cada instante de la vida.
Amazing photos! All of these photos the seem so peaceful. Esp with the music. Nowadays, everyone are beat up, shot up or have such tragic deaths. These ones seems at peace, even the families.
Wow. That's awful. I was thinking back on my family genealogy as well. Soooo many lost little ones. One in the 1800's had a family of....I think it was six, I'm not sure, but they lost two in December, right before Christmas. Then they lost two more the following year - and I realized that happened in January the following year. They lost 4 in the space of two months. A relative told me there had been a typhoid outbreak.
My grandmother had 16 children 3 of her daughters passed within two weeks of each other from tuberculosis it broke her heart and mind but she got on with life bringing up her other children life was much harder then for children and parents god bless the aunties i never got to meet rest in peace 😔🙏❤
In the early 1970s a man I was going to marry had to go home (Eastern Europe) for his father's funeral. He came back with a photo of his father in the casket in their home. I remember this very distinctly
Death was a huge part of life in the Victorian era, as it was a common occurrence for everyone; post mortem photos are a way to remember a loved one. Unlike today when death is hardly spoken and once dead many do not hang photos of the decease on walls or leave a smaller photo in a bureau. To understand the Victorians is to understand their passion for post mortem. Loved ones never die in the memory of those who keep them alive in heart, spirit, and daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and carte de visite.
Also they didn't have funeral homed. They bathed and kept watch with the body st home until it was buried. Now we pay strangers a ton of money because we can't deal with death up close.
@@jennyrose9454 thankfully it is moving away from that again. Thanks to systems like hospice people are staying at home while dying and being cared for by their families during it. In some states even the post death handling of the body has been put back into the hands of their loved ones. Very positive imo.
@@ThanatosArchive Because of Ron I'm here also and subbed. I'll ck out the create an account at a latter date because it's now 1 AM in Maryland where I live. At the lighthouse down the road from me, the Keeper House across the street from the Lighthouse before it was fixed up a man was found shot to death. The lady working behind the gift shop counter showed me the police report showing the man while alive. I brought her over to the back door where he was found, stright ahead in the next room were pictures of past workers tending the light from the 1800's. One of the men in the pictures on the wall could have been the man that was found dead's twin brother ! The lady's face turned pale, I thought it was cool. Yes, the Keeper's House and the lighthouse are haunted. I've gotten many ghost pictures there. But they are nice sprites, for the most part.
You can bet that the lack of antibiotics in those times caused the better part of those deaths; antibiotics, just another miracle we take for granted now.
You have to remember that very few people could have pictures of their living loved ones. The bereaved were terrified of forgetting what their loved ones looked like. Macabre though it seems to us these early photos were treasured. Which is why we have them now.
Well no. Actually photography was new and there weren't many photographers so if they had not yet had a photo taken, a post mortem photo was better than no photo.
Some people find this very creepy and absurd. But for me, I find this very sad. Because back in the day, Photograph was very expensive and not all people could afford them. That's why when their love once died they take a picture of it because they will never see them again the same as before. They just want to cherish them even in their death. Unlike now, we have access to a camera and technology and anytime we can take pictures and videos along with our friends, family, and loves ones. We are very lucky that we were born in a modern era.
so many babies...:( very touching... i always wonder what kind of life these people had back then,who they were and what their names were.. close to my house i have old cemetery and we have some graves back from 1800. so many kids,young babies.. some graves has only little stone and just a first name craved,nothing else.forgotten old graves. one has stayid in mind of a little girl who was just two years old when she died 1889,her name was Eva. and she has little angle thumbstone.
Getting a family portrait done was very costly back then. However, if you had a loved one die, you took the opportunity to get them photographed so you'd have something to remember them by. It is so very sad that infants and children were often the subject matter of these portraits. In the early days of photography, the infant mortality rate was extremely high. Diseases like Diphtheria, Typhoid, scarlet fever, yellow fever or something as simple as a bad cold could take a child's life. We take for granted that most of the diseases that killed children back then have either been avoided by vaccines, or simple medications like aspirin.
I have always been fascinated by post mortem culture from back in the day. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am curious about the piano piece. It is very touching and evokes emotion. Can you please share the composer in the description or if anyone recognizes it, please share. Thank you. Take care.
1903 syntynyt isoisäni Uuno Pietari sai nimekseen edellisvuonna menehtyneen veljensä nimen (ikää 2 kuukautta), samoin vanhempi veljensä Väinö Jeremias, syntynyt 1896, sai edellisvuonna menehtyneen veljensä (eli vain noin viikon) nimen. Tämä siis Suomessa, Hämeenlinnassa.
Je suis frappée par l’expression paisible des visages de ces personnes décédées. Aussi bien les jeunes enfants que les adultes. Une sorte de bien-être, de béatitude.
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All those babies that barely got to live. How tragic, yet beautiful that they can still be admired and remembered all these years later.
It is indeed tragic, but we can take comfort in the fact that parents & children have long since been reunited, and will never be apart forevermore
Beautifully said, H G......
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Imagine the 300,000 babies every year that are killed beford they are even born! That is incredibly tragic. Its amazing how people have been brainwashed to think it's ok to do.
People forget we aren’t even 200 years past this being the norm and we only got here thanks to modern medicine yet they want to totally disregard medications and vaccines
Each picture filled with so much emotion. You can see the hurt in the family’s face.
The photographers did the best they could and with great respect. We all take things for granted today. That cost a lot of money for the family and the only image they had of their loved one. It wasn't affordable. TY for sharing this part of history.
These sad photos are a cure for any belief that life was better in the "good old days." I am grateful to live in a time when the deaths of babies and children, mothers in childbirth, and young people are rare. I wonder how many of these people passed due to tuberculosis, the scourge of their time. And the babies dying of fever and respiratory infections that a quick trip to urgent care can now remedy. Beautiful record of those times, thank you.
Many people have died to the lack of knowledge and medicine back in the day. Yet so many people today complain about Covid. Imagine if those complaining lived how it was back in the day?
Years ago I was a telephone repairman or Ma Bell in Charlotte, NC. I was sent to Settlers Cemetery downtown which is the oldest in Charlotte. As I wandered around I couldn't help seeing `all the children's graves. So many were newborns but a lot of them were under age 5. A few of them were mother and child graves. We had an instance of that in my own family in the 1930s. My mother's mother had two stillborn boys. It explains the nine year gap between her and her sister. My wife has a stillborn brother. My mother carried 8 babies to term, no losses. 150 years ago A woman might be fortunate to see half of them grow to adulthood. I also noticed a lot of deaths from 1918. I guessed that the Spanish Flu had hit the area.
Medicine is so advanced today and can clear so many diseases that we're shocked when we see a death from a disease more easily treated than in the past.
@@robertcuminale1212 @ivorybow
There is a video here on TH-cam on a channel that discusses history and they did a documentary about the dangers of Victorian living and it was exposing how they'd cover up sour milk with Borax and things like that, and it was one of the biggest sources of TB and child deaths. Just awful 😔
Part of me wants to think these photos are terribly ghoulish yet I find myself captivated by them. There is beauty and art to this style of photography. Thank you for sharing them with us.
WOW! What a collection of photos? I cannot imagine how difficult it would have been for a parent or parents to have photos taken with their deceased child. In some shots, some of the people don't look dead. All those precious children. A different time. A different era. The music is beautiful.
Yeah a time photography was so expensive only the rich could have afforded it some only then after the child died!
I totally agree.The anguish and grief still show on the faces of the mothers and fathers...How fortunate we are,even in this time of a pandemic ,to have such excellent medical care available to us and especially to children.Our diets play a large positive in that arena as well,in addition to knowledge regarding sanitation etc.our mortality rates are so mech better and many of us have no idea just how much worse it was up until the 1940's onward with regards to life expectancy.
It's very difficult but it's the only chance to get a photo of your loved one. What do you do, try to smile, cry or be indifferent? I tried to smile but yes you knew the hurt/ grief I was trying to hide.
@@kimberlypatton9634 it’s vaccination against all the childhood diseases that allow our children to live to adulthood nowadays. Postmortem photography became popular in the Victorian era where sanitation was already widely recognized and practiced as a health benefit. However, infant and mother mortality remained high because of viral diseases and lack of obstetrical knowledge (it was still illegal to perform autopsy so they had no idea to the workings of the human body). Just one tear in the perineal area or a piece of placenta left in the womb would kill a mother in about 10 days. The industrial revolution ushered in advancements in mass production but it also encouraged cheats as there were no government standards. Milk for babies was one such. Mother’s were encouraged to use bottle feeding to “free” themselves but the milk was cut and polluted with garbage so babies literally starved to death while being fed. I’m glad I live in modern times
I can’t imagine the only picture of a loved one, being a death photo. I take so many pictures that people complain, however, when they need a picture, guess who they call!
This really made me cry, all those beautiful children, so precious.
The babies and children are the hardest to look at. So innocent like they're sleeping. So many died in infancy and childhood and family never had photos until these were taken. We should be thankful today for cameras, androids etc. I take dozens of pics of my now grown autistic son every week plus video.
Grim that photos were taken after death since photos were considered a luxury. At least they got to keep a memory of their loved one.
Beautifully haunting.
Jack, I am a long-time follower of your work. I am proud to say that my senior dissertation at university is on the subject of postmortem photography, funeral ephemera, and memory. Beyond the Dark Veil brought me beyond my view of these pictures as simple 'memento mori.' These are objects that exhibit profound familial love. I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate this collection of photography and what an honor it is to study it. Cheers from Michigan.
Thank you very much for the nice comments and for being such a long time supporter - appreciated! Jack
These images capture such a tender moment.
Really touches your heart to see so many children. Thank you for saving these photos from being lost forever, and I too came from forgotten faces channel.
This is so sad but also, so calming because it looks like they're asleep.
But they're not. Kinda make us ponder on our own mortality.
Came over from the FOTF page. I have lots of photos from my family that were done like this. Alive and deceased. They always have fascinated me.
What priceless things to possess.
Are their eyes open or painted on? Sorry, to be so rude but, I have never seen any painted on. I was very curious if they looked the same.
Some people find these creepy...some fascinating...but if you really look, you'll see tenderness and the heartbreak of people whose loss cut so deep that having this final...and perhaps only...image of their loved one was their only comfort. It's really a sad, yet beautiful thing.
They are not creepy at all: I have a big album full of post mortem photographs of my deceased relatives and unknown people and I will treasure them
Looking at those babies and children is so saddening. They were so beautiful.
Thank you for showing actual post mortem pictures instead of the fakes that have been circulating on TH-cam. I find them sad but beautiful at the same time
The dead mother with her newborn really got to me.
Pewnie oboje martwi. To musiało być potworne, kiedy kobieta umierała przy porodzie.
Love means more than death it's self and thank you for providing Ron from faces of the forgotten with pictures for his video's.
The children are especially sad. Beautiful angels. The one of the deceased Mother and child is as well.
It’s so sad so much little ones lost their lives before it could even begin 💐
Makes me thankful I live in a time where most diseases can be treated. Can’t imagine the amount of loss these poor people had to endure
How much they were loved is evidenced by these images.
Aww the little babies break my heart
When I first found the postmortem photographs from the 19th century, I was sad and curious why it was done. My husband had the great response: "at the time, photography was expensive, done in a studio. These photographs for some were the only reminders that these family members existed..." I saw some photographs of my relatives from earlier in the 20th century. It is not as common now. May all the people in these photographs Rest in Peace.
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Back in the mid forties my grandfather's older brother and his wife lost their 4 month old daughter. The only picture they ever had of her was of her in her little casket taken at the cemetery right before she was laid to rest.
The first time I heard of this was in the movie "The Others" with Nicole Kidman. Gruesome, but still fascinating. Thank you for the video.
U nas nadal robi się zdjęcia zmarłym ale w trumnie. Nikt nie pozoruje ich na żywych.
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@@vickisawyer7405 Z Polski. Mój tata zmarł w 2012r. (to straszne ale dla mnie to wciąż jakby było wczoraj) Mam zdjęcie w kaplicy, Tata leży w trumnie a mama, siostra i ja stoimy obok. Nigdy nie oglądam tego zdjęcia. Tata zmarł nagle, wracał z wakacji, ( męska wyprawa na ryby na Morzu Północnym), zasnął na promie z Ystad do Gdańska i się nie obudził...
@@Florka100 I'm very sorry. I don't have any pics of my loved ones, except when they were alive. I know others who have done the coffin pictures. I guess it depends on what comforts you most. My brother died in 1991 and I still miss him all of the time.
When my great grandma was a kid back in the 1920s her brother died of an infected blister on his foot from wearing new shoes. If they had antibiotics back then, he would had lived. He was only 8 or 9 years old.
My great-grandmother had 16 children in the same years at the beginning of the 20th century. Only 9 children survived.😢
Life was so hard in that era it seems
Sad that so many children died from things that could be easily sorted today
There was antibiotics back in the 1920s
@@lisatolliver2866it invented in the 1930s I believe
The mother holding her head up with her hand as she stares at her deceased baby. That one was heartbreaking.
Hello Penelope, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the COVID-19 virus??
My heart breaks for all those parents of children and babies. And I agree, the music is beautiful!
Mother and child together in Coffein,,, Im in tears
My auntie’s trunk we inherited had several postcards of a child relative in her casket. My granny said they do this because it very well could be the only picture they get because it was expensive.
You can still feel the pain.
All those little angels 😇. So young n precious. Hope the families were reunited when they joined the little ones. N the older people who passed joined their families as well. May all be resting in peace. Thank you for the thoughtful pictures.
So creepy for us now, but admire the time and efforts spent making them look so perfect and look at peace.
May all these people rest in the sweetest of peace
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So far I have avoided it hope you are safe as well
@@heidigomes1552 I’m fine Heidi😊. Hope you’re having a nice and a wonderful day today??
"Oh my beloved , though art come for me!"
Thats what most.of their expressions look like to me. so beautiful! To think, these are most likely the only photos taken of these people, as a momento for those who loved them.
I've lost my son. I cannot imagine wanting an image of him in death. Or having to see that image daily. I want to remember him full of life.
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Meus sentimentos ❤️, que você guarde boas recordações de seu filho 💞
Vary often in those days the only photo people had when someone died would be this as photography was so expensive..they wanted to have something to remember their loved one by. I’m sorry for the loss of your son…I lost my first daughter to.❤
My condolences on such a profound loss.
As mentioned above in those days sometimes the only photograph they would have of their loved one was after they had died.
@@narelle-creative-arts Don't forget to mention that photography was a very lengthy process too- sometimes it could be days before the photographer came in so the corpses would sometimes rot before the picture was taken unfortunately.
They didn't have any pictures of their children because it was too expensive. They took the pictures to remember their precious babies
So many children breaks my heart
Beautiful memories.
All this little children...so heartwrenching.
I worked in a cemetery and it was the little ones that bothered everyone. Most people didn’t come back to work after they had to lay a baby or small child to rest. It’s very personal just you a shovel and your thoughts. I don’t think that I would be able to work that close to the dead but it’s crazy what you can get used to.
You are absolutely right Chris. I was an oncology nurse and lost count of how many dying people's hands I held over 25 yrs. of working. I got used to it, but never over it.
Chris, you are right. You can used to anything....sometimes in a good way, sometimes not so good.
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First responders are heroes! They are there for us when we are in desperate need of them - and I thank them for saving my life twice when I would have otherwise have died from my injuries - and both times were the result of drunk drivers in the offending vehicles. I not only owe them my life, but also the ability to learn how to walk again, because they took perfect care not to damage my spinal cord on one very difficult extraction.
I'm grateful to your son for his service 😍 He's a hero in my eyes ♥️ XX
I play Taps for funerals sometimes. I end up standing more-or-less at attention during the service, so as not to distract, but this one time, I realized that all aroudn me were little grave stones with lambs on top of them. So many, like eight or ten....I just felt a hint of the intense grief that had been experienced in that spot and had to move. Couldn't take it. All those little ones.
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Thank you, Milk Andhoney. Indeed, they were life-altering experiences on both occasions.. and now I talk to Yr12 students about why drink driving is a crime. You have every right to be proud of your son - FR's risk everything to serve the community and make the world a better place to live in. Thanks for your kind reply, and I hope you have a lovely day : ) Be blessed 🙏🏻😍
So sad, So many babies, little children that died never got a chance to live. They look like they're sleeping angels😇 R.I.P🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️
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We dont know anything about these matters. Maybe life is a dream where we dream of such things as death.
The ones of babies and children are so sad and the young Mother with her newborn. Imagine living out on a lonesome, windswept prairie, no neighbors for miles and miles, your husband is often gone for days and your child is your constant companion and reason for being......and then that sweet child dies. The grief and loneliness, the utter despair of the poor Mother- and Father, too. What a lonely life.
These photographs are very sad, especially when they are of babies and little children, but they are something I never knew existed! I literally cry looking, mostly of photographs of babies, so many who probably never saw the light of day, and little, innocent children taken from this earth for reasons too numerous to try and guess.
The folk(s) who have this site, Thank you Kindly for sharing!
My grandmother who was born in 1903 told me that in the past they did not give you a name until you were a one year old. You were just called baby until then. Babies died frequently so you did not want to get to emotionally attached to them.
Mi papá nació el 24 de mayo de 1906 y vivió casi 92 , falleció el 28 de abril de 1998
А моя бабушка родилась в 1892 году, но подобного я не слышала. Знаю только, что имена детям давал священник и если какая-то семья была неугодна ему, то он мог дать их ребенку нелепое имя. У моей бабушки дети умирали в младенчестве, так когда рождался следующий ребенок, священник, чтоб не заморачиваться, велел оставить ему метрику умершего ребенка. И так было не раз. У моей бабушки был не один такой случай. И когда у бабушки умер очередной ребенок, не знаю уже какой по счёту, их было больше десяти, она взмолилась. "Господи, я так устала от этих смертей. Дай мне отдохнуть от детей хоть лет десять." И ровно десять лет бабушка не рожала и ровно через десять лет родилась моя мама, бабушке было 44 года, а деду 54. Такая история.
All the little children😢it just breaks my heart😢
Before vaccines, half of all children born died before age 5.
Mia bisnonna ha partorito 10 figli ,dei quali 6 sono morti di una rara malattia...... piccolissimi!!!!! Mio bisnonno diceva: chiamo la levatrice e compro la bara!!!
All those beautiful children who didn’t have a life. So very sad.
Infant mortality was a lot higher back then
No, it's more common now. All the aborted children who have been murdered.
Angels in the sky 😢😢
Yes, we are so blessed in modern life in many ways. Both of my sons caught pneumonia around 18 months of age. One hundred years ago, they would both be dead instead of being healthy young men.
turned such a tragic event into a beautiful memory
Hauntingly beautiful.....
Simply the most stunning images.
God bless you ! Thank you for shareing the lost one's memories here. 💖
Thank you for remembering the lost ones here with so much respect and beauitful music. Also thank you for letting Ron from Faces Of The Forgotten use some of your pictures.
Gone but not forgotten. 🤘👻💖
That last one of the boy with his eyes wide open. He doesn't look dead at all.
I have one of these of my great aunt. She was 4 years old & died from diphtheria. It’s very eerie.
Very sad! This was just before vaccines were being discovered.
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Were her eyes open or closed?
So many children. May they rest in peace
I know these photographs seem gruesome and terrifying but sometimes families want something to remember their loved ones. Some of the babies and young children are so peaceful, they look like angels.
It’s grotesque and macabre.
@@seanbrown9048Особенно жутко последнее фото мальчика с открытыми глазами.
@@NataliaK535 KAOPECTATE!
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It's also full of beauty, love and joy!
@@joijuaire-darfler4614 lol; uhhh, no… just a bunch of dead people.
The Wee little ones break my heart. It's probably the Only picture that exists of them. Sad
The most heartbreaking images were of the twins, both had to die! And the mother with her newborn,😢
The children are absolutely heartbreaking.😢
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Me also. Ron has gotten me intrigued in these now.
@@ThanatosArchive me also. Ron at FOTF has a fantastic channel and has gotten me interested in these now and told us about your channel.
Thank you! Very eerie! Especially the guy towards the end, eyes wide open and staring into the lens!! I can see the iris of his eyes.
Came over from the FOTF channel!
Thank you for stopping by! FOTF is an excellent channel!
@@ThanatosArchive I enjoyed the video very much. You are so lucky to own so many beautiful Photos. Thank you for sharing them!
@@tamarakindle73 TYVM :)
Me too.
Me too, simply marvelous collection! You deserve so many more subs!!! I hope that everyone from Ron's channel, discovers this channel! Thank you for sharing the collection that you've amassed!
Dietro il loro sembrare macabro per qualcuno io trovo queste foto stupende. Durante tutto il video ho recitato l'Eterno Riposo. Furono anime che abitarono questo mondo come noi. E come dicevo, queste foto sono una loro traccia ai posteri. Toccherà a tutti noi, ma per adesso proviamo a gioire della vita che abbiamo e non essere tristi per quella che non abbiamo (fama, ricchezza, salute o altro). Accontentiamoci... Viva la vita...
Their souls are shining jewels! 💖
What is the "Eternal Rest?"
The photos with babies or children are heartbreaking. Not only did the little one lose their life but the Mother went through such danger back then to have them. It is still dangerous now but back then there was usually not even a doctor present. A simple infection was a death sentence. These children were treasured and loved. I read a book once called Pioneer Women. It was stories of women moving westward in the 1800's and some stories of their lives once settled. One lady lived with her husband and their young son in a primitive cabin. She was pregnant but not due to give birth for a few weeks. Her husband needed to sell their grain and took the wagon full to town about 50 miles away. He promised he would be back in a matter of days. They had no neighbors on the vast prairie. It started raining the day he left and just got worse and worse by the hour. Within a few days he had gotten to town but due to the heavy flooding the bridge over a wide raging river washed away preventing him coming right back. They couldn't even try to rebuild the bridge or ferry anyone across because it was still raining and the waters were too dangerous. Back at the cabin the wife of course grew more worried as the days passed, their food dwindled and she felt like she would deliver soon. After a week and a half she went into labor. With the help of her 8 year old son she gave birth. A day later a pack ofwolves found their cabin and started slamming the door. Their door had no lock so they barricaded it as best they could but the wolves came back at night and pushed the door open a few inches. She had never shot her husband's rifle before but she pointed it at the door and fired away. She heard yapping and the Wolves ran off. She barricaded the door again. The next day she found a dead wolf outside their door.
By the time her husband returned a few weeks later he was shocked to see the dead wolf that she had moved against the shed nearby. Inside he found the three of them cozy by a nice fire but with little food remaining. The adults burst into tears. They moved back East a month later. People are so soft now. Our ancestors went through so much. I wonder how many times her story has been told to family and friends in 150 years?!
That/This is what any life/any country is...a continuous living/death story.
I bet her son was scarred for life when he had to listen and see his mom give birth.
So many beautiful young children....
Cuanta tristeza la de esas madres y padres que perdieron a sus pequeños, supongo que el consuelo era al menos tener una foto de ellos, aun cuando fuese fallecidos, y uns manera de decirles , que nunca los olvidarian. A diderencia de nuetra epoca que retratamos cada instante de la vida.
Très émouvantes ces photos ! Jeunes pour l éternité
Tragically beautiful
In beauty there is sadness!
Amazing photos! All of these photos the seem so peaceful. Esp with the music. Nowadays, everyone are beat up, shot up or have such tragic deaths. These ones seems at peace, even the families.
Such sweet memories of loved ones they hold so dear in their hearts. ❤️💙 🙏
My grandmother lost half of her children before they were 10 yrs. old. They were all born between 1910-25.
Wow. That's awful. I was thinking back on my family genealogy as well. Soooo many lost little ones. One in the 1800's had a family of....I think it was six, I'm not sure, but they lost two in December, right before Christmas. Then they lost two more the following year - and I realized that happened in January the following year. They lost 4 in the space of two months. A relative told me there had been a typhoid outbreak.
Makes me sad, but I do like the history. Prayers they are all in heaven. ❤❤
My grandmother had 16 children 3 of her daughters passed within two weeks of each other from tuberculosis it broke her heart and mind but she got on with life bringing up her other children life was much harder then for children and parents god bless the aunties i never got to meet rest in peace 😔🙏❤
So beautiful and so sad. Beautiful music as well. The children break my heart 💔
Im searching for the artist behind the music. Want to download it. Any idee who it is?
@@A_M_B_U_G_I_R_L It's Passacaglia, Händel 😊❤️
In the early 1970s a man I was going to marry had to go home (Eastern Europe) for his father's funeral. He came back with a photo of his father in the casket in their home. I remember this very distinctly
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Death was a huge part of life in the Victorian era, as it was a common occurrence for everyone; post mortem photos are a way to remember a loved one. Unlike today when death is hardly spoken and once dead many do not hang photos of the decease on walls or leave a smaller photo in a bureau. To understand the Victorians is to understand their passion for post mortem. Loved ones never die in the memory of those who keep them alive in heart, spirit, and daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and carte de visite.
Also they didn't have funeral homed. They bathed and kept watch with the body st home until it was buried. Now we pay strangers a ton of money because we can't deal with death up close.
@@jennyrose9454 thankfully it is moving away from that again. Thanks to systems like hospice people are staying at home while dying and being cared for by their families during it. In some states even the post death handling of the body has been put back into the hands of their loved ones. Very positive imo.
@@marthapackard8649 I agree. Idk why but that appeals to me
Twins, or siblings who died at the same time. That's really heartbreaking. I don't know how parents survive the loss of a child.
death was a common occurrence in those day, life was hard and they moved on, they HAD to
Bless all those little angels who only got a sniff of life. If they were lucky. Poor wee souls. ❤️
Coming over from FOTF….. these pictures are heartbreaking and beautiful…
Same FOTF.
Ron really helped my small channel out and I am very appreciative.
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Because of Ron I'm here also and subbed. I'll ck out the create an account at a latter date because it's now 1 AM in Maryland where I live.
At the lighthouse down the road from me, the Keeper House across the street from the Lighthouse before it was fixed up a man was found shot to death.
The lady working behind the gift shop counter showed me the police report showing the man while alive.
I brought her over to the back door where he was found, stright ahead in the next room were pictures of past workers tending the light from the 1800's. One of the men in the pictures on the wall could have been the man that was found dead's twin brother ! The lady's face turned pale, I thought it was cool.
Yes, the Keeper's House and the lighthouse are haunted. I've gotten many ghost pictures there. But they are nice sprites, for the most part.
@@ghostcityshelton9378 Great story, thanks for sharing and subscribing!
Bonjour
C'est magnifique et très émouvant
Seeing this makes me pain.
Hard to look at the babies as my one year old sleeps beside me. Surely they are all in heaven now.
You can bet that the lack of antibiotics in those times caused the better part of those deaths; antibiotics, just another miracle we take for granted now.
Then there were many deaths due to lack of medicines.
Yep and people are screwing that up. Is it any wonder MRSA or ORSA are running rampant?
You have to remember that very few people could have pictures of their living loved ones. The bereaved were terrified of forgetting what their loved ones looked like. Macabre though it seems to us these early photos were treasured. Which is why we have them now.
Well no. Actually photography was new and there weren't many photographers so if they had not yet had a photo taken, a post mortem photo was better than no photo.
The sadness of the parents is palpable. Sad but this is what was done then and maybe for the better...who knows. RIP.
Time of my Gr Grandparents...
What a horrific time as our medicines and treatments were not available.
RIP as new they are now with their loved ones.
So many babies and little kids. Back then children died from so many diseases. It's heartbreaking.
Some people find this very creepy and absurd. But for me, I find this very sad. Because back in the day, Photograph was very expensive and not all people could afford them. That's why when their love once died they take a picture of it because they will never see them again the same as before. They just want to cherish them even in their death. Unlike now, we have access to a camera and technology and anytime we can take pictures and videos along with our friends, family, and loves ones. We are very lucky that we were born in a modern era.
3:57 is a achingly beautiful photo.
Hello, Ron from FOTF sent me over so I subscribed after watching this. Have a great evening and will visit again.
Thank you very much
It’s heartbreaking how many of these are children!
Most were children 😢
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so many babies...:( very touching... i always wonder what kind of life these people had back then,who they were and what their names were.. close to my house i have old cemetery and we have some graves back from 1800. so many kids,young babies.. some graves has only little stone and just a first name craved,nothing else.forgotten old graves. one has stayid in mind of a little girl who was just two years old when she died 1889,her name was Eva. and she has little angle thumbstone.
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I enjoy wandering through graveyards, especially old ones, while reading the headstones and wondering about the lives of these forgotten souls
All the mothers and babies that died in childbirth .. so many my heart goes out to them
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So sad,I cried for these children & their parents😔
Getting a family portrait done was very costly back then. However, if you had a loved one die, you took the opportunity to get them photographed so you'd have something to remember them by. It is so very sad that infants and children were often the subject matter of these portraits. In the early days of photography, the infant mortality rate was extremely high. Diseases like Diphtheria, Typhoid, scarlet fever, yellow fever or something as simple as a bad cold could take a child's life. We take for granted that most of the diseases that killed children back then have either been avoided by vaccines, or simple medications like aspirin.
Hauntingly beautiful
Even in death children are so beautiful.
C était des œuvres d'art ! Un bel hommage aux défunts !
Beautiful; music 🎶. The pictures are very haunting. Came over from Ron’s channel.
I have always been fascinated by post mortem culture from back in the day. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am curious about the piano piece. It is very touching and evokes emotion. Can you please share the composer in the description or if anyone recognizes it, please share. Thank you. Take care.
I don't know who performed this exact version, but if you search Passcaglia / Handel you will find the song
I also want to know the name of this music
Handel's Suite No. 7 in G minor, Passacaglia for piano.
The woman and the newborn got me😢😢
Yes, that's what I thought 😒
Heartbreaking.
1903 syntynyt isoisäni Uuno Pietari sai nimekseen edellisvuonna menehtyneen veljensä nimen (ikää 2 kuukautta), samoin vanhempi veljensä Väinö Jeremias, syntynyt 1896, sai edellisvuonna menehtyneen veljensä (eli vain noin viikon) nimen. Tämä siis Suomessa, Hämeenlinnassa.
Je suis frappée par l’expression paisible des visages de ces personnes décédées. Aussi bien les jeunes enfants que les adultes.
Une sorte de bien-être, de béatitude.