Actually, if you look on EBay, these types of photos are big sellers, I've seen them go for big money. Go figure. On 1/21/07, Rene' <rtreff@stny.rr.com> wrote: > > I've heard a couple of different explanations, one that the pictures were > taken because someone wasn't there and they wanted to send the picture to > them, and another because they just didn't have any pictures of that > person, > so they did it at death. > > I have to say when I saw the picture of my great uncle as a kid, I thought > how gross and I really couldn't look at it, but now as an adult, I see the > value in it. We don't have that many pictures of family from the early > 1900 > s, so even one taken at death gives a little more insight to a family that > I > never knew. > > I'm not sure how many of you looked at the sites that I sent, but there is > one picture of a young woman whose mother couldn't bear to part with her, > the picture was taken 9 days after death, she was posed sitting in a > chair. > That is what amazes me, the lengths that people went to, to have these > pictures taken. > > Rene' > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Patty Gaddis > Date: 1/20/2007 10:36:19 PM > To: Rene'; nydelawa@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NYDELAWA] photos of the dead > > There is supposedly a family photo somewhere of my grandmother's sister in > the casket. Supposedly she died in childbirth and the photo is of her and > the baby. No one seems to know what happened to it any more. This was > taken in 1939 in Springfield, IL. We always thought it was taken because > my grandmother, living in California, couldn't attend the funeral. > > Patty > > > To contact list administrator send email to nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >