Andre-Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Communards in their coffins, Paris, May 1871.
Source: University of Texas, Austin
Alfred John Tattersall, Death portrait of High chief Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III, Vaimoso, Samoa, 1930.
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Memento Mori of the Dalton Gang, outlaws in the American Old West. Left to right: Bill Power, Bob Dalton, Grat Dalton, and Dick Broadwell, October 1892.
Source: Cramers Art Rooms of Cherryvale, Kansas
Josef Lowy, Johann Strauß auf dem Todtenbette, June 1899.
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Postmortem Portrait of a Baby, USA, 1856-1860.
Source: Getty Museum
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Postmortem Portrait of an Infant, USA, ca. 1855.
Source: Getty Museum
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