** NEW DISCOVERY REGARDING BOOTH AUTOPSY PHOTO

[BettyO]

Quote:It wasn't unusual to have a "death photo" taken as a final remembrance of the dearly departed.

Correct, Gene. "Memento Mori" or Death Photographs of the "dearly departed" (most in what were referred to as "Sleeping Beauty" portraits) were extremely popular in the Victorian era. However, photography was not utilized much to identify the dead in the 1860s except for Civil War battlefield images. By 1876, photographs were taken of the corpses of the Cole Younger gang in the Northfield, MN raid and were widely produced. The identification purposes of photography were just beginning in it's infancy at this probable time.

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