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Adolphe Kips de Coppin
Post mortem portrait
n.d.
Daguerreotype, 1/4 plate

Location and source information requested

LL/53331 [Further details available]

1 of 16

Unidentified photographer
Photomontage of a post-mortem
1880 (ca)
Albumen print, photomontage
18 x 24 cm

Ader Nordmann
Photographs, 12 November 2017, Lot: 41

LL/78375 [Further details available]

2 of 16

M.P. Simons
Post mortem infant in crib
n.d.
Carte de visite

Private collection of Ron Coddington

LL/61238 [Further details available]

3 of 16

Lawrence & Houseworth
Starr King’s Tomb. March 4th, 1865. San Francisco, CA
1865
Carte de visite

Hindman Auctions
Sale 1005, American Historical Ephemera & Photography, 8 March 2022, Lot: 590

LL/118686 [Further details available]

4 of 16

William Nick (traveling photographer)
Post mortem, baby in casket
n.d.
Carte de visite

Private collection of Ron Coddington

LL/61237 [Further details available]

5 of 16

Unidentified photographer
Post-mortem portrait taken in a studio
n.d.
Photograph

Private collection of Christopher Steiner

LL/117902

6 of 16

Unidentified photographer
Not Lost but Gone Before - "Little Willie"
n.d.
Tintype, memorial
2.25 x 3.5 in (image) 22 x 10 in (frame)

Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#20 / 129)

LL/31514 [Further details available]

7 of 16

A. Hing (Hong Kong)
Memorial card for John O'Neill
n.d.
Cabinet card

Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#18 / 148)

LL/21594

8 of 16

Walter Hudson (Hastings, Sussex, England)
Memorial portrait of an unidentified young girl
n.d.
Cabinet card

National Museums Scotland
History of Science, Howarth-Loomes Collection, Museum Reference: IL.2003.44.5.202

LL/68359

9 of 16

Unknown (American, 19th century)
Memorial Portrait of Youth, Vignetted and Surrounded by Floral wreath
Late 19th–early 20th century
Albumen print
30.3 × 25.2 cm (11 15/16 × 9 15/16 ins (image)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Clifford S. Ackley in memory of Charles Millard, Accession no: 2018.175

LL/96962

10 of 16

Unidentified photographer
Remembrance portrait of Emma L. Nelson
n.d.
Framed photograph

Private collection of Colleen Nadas

LL/99863

12 of 16

Unidentified photographer(s)
James Bowden, firefighter, Peoria, Illinois
n.d.
Photographs (2)

Private collection of Brian Duddy

LL/87141 [Further details available]

13 of 16

L. Szacinski (company)
Aslaug Larsen's wreath
1912
Photograph

Oslo Museum
Idenbtifier: OB.SZ22457

LL/84969

14 of 16

Unidentified photographer
A memorial still life
n.d.
Autochrome
5 x 7 ins

Stereographica - Antique Photographica
Courtesy of Bryan and Page Ginns (#23 / 153)

LL/42964

15 of 16

Unidentified photographer
Cemetery of killed YPG fighters with photographs on the gravestones in Afrin, northern Syria during Turkey's Operation Olive Branch
2018, 21 March (online)
Photograph

Internet - Original source ill-defined

LL/80644

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Photographers

PhV	Adolphe Kips de Coppin
PhV	Lawrence & Houseworth
PhV	M.P. Simons

Online Exhibitions

PhV	19th Century Post-mortem photography and memento mori

Contents - Themes & Fragments

PhV	Backgrounds and foregrounds - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
PhV	Cabinet cards - Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles
PhV	Cabinet cards - Cabinet cards: Post-mortem and memorial portraits
PhV	Cartes de visite - Cartes de visite: Post-mortem portraits
PhV	Composition - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
PhV	Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Post-mortem portraits
PhV	Dead - Cabinet cards: Post-mortem and memorial portraits
PhV	Dead - Cartes de visite: Post-mortem portraits
PhV	Dead - Daguerreotypes: Post-mortem portraits
PhV	Dead - Floral memorials and floral wreaths
PhV	Dead - Introduction to the photography of death
PhV	Dead - Nineteenth century post-mortem and memento mori
PhV	Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori - Cabinet cards: Post-mortem and memorial portraits
PhV	Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori - Cartes de visite: Post-mortem portraits
PhV	Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori - Daguerreotypes: Post-mortem portraits
PhV	Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori - Introduction to death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori
PhV	Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori - Nineteenth century post-mortem and memento mori
PhV	Death, post-mortem, memorial portraiture and memento mori - Tintypes: Post-mortem portraits
PhV	Fabricated realities - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
PhV	Flowers - Floral memorials and floral wreaths
PhV	Flowers - Flowers: Roses
PhV	Memory - Picture in Picture
PhV	Non-canonical photography - Non-canonical examples
PhV	Non-paper objects - Introduction to non-paper objects
PhV	Occupational - Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles
PhV	Occupations and roles - Cabinet cards: Occupations and roles
PhV	Photomontage - Understanding the terms