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Beyond the dark veil : post-mortem and mourning photography from the Thanatos Archive / [editor, Sue Henger]

by Jack Mord, Marion Peck, Jacqueline Bunge, Joe Smoke, Adam Arenson, Bess Lovejoy, Joanna Roche, Alex Jackson

Sourced from The Thanatos Archive, this volume compiles over 120 historical photographs and related ephemera documenting the practice of post-mortem and mourning photography from the Victorian era to the early twentieth century.

Accession 10547 ISBN 9780867197969 Publisher California State University, Nicholas & Lee Begovich Gallery, Grand Central Press and Last Gasp
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