Little Unknown Baby

This weekend I was digging through some old family photos. Up until now, I thought the only Victorian photos my family ever had were of my great grandmother and great grandfather. I was so wrong. Look what I found! It sure as hell looks like a Victorian photo to me. And to be honest, the poor baby doesn't look too alive.

I don't know who she is, all I know is she's a member of my family. We have a few fuzzy spots in our family history, and I'm thinking she's Elizabeth, a sister of my grandmother who my dad and I didn't know about until last year. We don't know anything about her or why no one talked about her. My guess is that she died as a baby. Could this be her? Who the hell knows?

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This is a coffin covered in flowers. Wish I knew who this person was, but I love love this photo even if I don't know the identity.

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It took my dad and I a while to figure out who those people were, but we did it last weekend. the woman on the left is my great grandmother, who I take after for looks. The other woman is my great great grandmother, the man is my great grandfather, the man behind the tree is my great great grandfather, the baby very well may be my grandmother (or one of my great aunts), the girl is my great aunt and the boy is my great uncle who died probably shortly after this picture was taken at the age of 6 by drowning.

For some reason, my great great grandfather behind the tree kind of creeps me out. I don't know why. Maybe because his skin looks like it blends in with the tree and it almost looks like he shouldn't be there. Hell, for all I know, no one was there and it's some sort of ghost. O__O



This lovely lady is my grandmother, taken around the 30's or 40's. She was very pretty and there was talk that she did modeling for a department store in New Jersey. There's no proof of this, but if someone has photos of a woman who looks like her doing some modeling, please leave a comment telling me so. You don't know how much it would mean to my dad and me if we could see the fabled modeling photos.

Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl

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At least I think she's dead. This is what I believe to be my first postmortem photo. I've read up on them and I remember reading about how if you see a person standing in a photo, look behind them and see if you can see the legs of a stand. These stands were like doll stands for porcelain dolls that clamp to the back and have wires run through the sleeves.

If you look behind the little girl's feet you'll see legs to what I believe is one of those life size doll stands.

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I have yet to figure out what this girl is wearing. I'm guessing it's some sort of holiday garb or costume for a play.


I also have yet to figure out what's written here. I'm bad at reading cursive as it is, but faded cursive is the worse. I think it says "Mattie, March 17, 1894" And the rest is a mystery to me. How bad is it that a 16 year old has trouble reading cursive?

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Hi, I'm Kelly Ann and I've started collecting vintage photos.

While most 16-year-old girls are busy with friends, facebook, myspace, boys and dumb TV, I'm also busy with drawing, writing, photography and collecting vintage photos. And death. I'm kind of obsessed with death.

For the time being, I only own 5 vintage photos, seeing as how they seem to go for so much on eBay, most antique shops also sell them for a lot and my main supplier is running low on photos. Two photos are from my father's box of family photos. The first is my grandmother when she was younger, back in the 30's or 40's. She was so pretty. The other one is a family sitting outside of a house in the 1900's... I think... We're not actually sure if they're relatives or old friends of my great grandparents.

I'll be posting those and the three others I bought later, once I get my scanner hooked up again. A real treat for lovers of postmortem photography: The first photo I picked up from my supplier is a postmortem photo... Or at least I think it is...

Anyway, about the name of the site. When my dad and I go to antique shops, he always says "Who in their right mind would just get rid of old family photos like this? Even if you don't know who they are, at least keep them!" This made me think about how most of the time the identity of the person is lost, seeing as how there's probably no family members alive who know who the person is. These people might as well be lost souls. Faces without names. Just lost. And I want people to remember them, even if no one remembers their faces.

Of course, it's not just photos of humans I'm going to be posting. Any interesting vintage photo I can get my hands on is fair game. :)