Death Portrait of Baby
Description
- Creator
- William Vodden, Hanover, Ontario, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Death portrait of unidentified baby, distant relative of the John Bruegeman family of Waterloo.
- Notes
- Death portraits or postmortem photographs (also known as memento mori) were of deceased persons or pets. The body is usually presented in a lifelike or resting pose, sometimes in a casket. These photographs were made to be preserved as keepsakes by those in mourning, beginning as early as 1839.
John Bruegeman (1869-1950) was born in Hanover.
William Vodden was a photographer in Hanover between 1884 and 1890. - Inscriptions
- See reverse for photographer's information.
- Date of Original
- [between 1884 and 1890]
- Date Of Event
- [between 1884 and 1890]
- Dimensions
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Width: 6.5 cm
Height: 10.5 cm
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 6.5cm
Image Height: 10.5cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- I-1-1 ; Negative No.
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 44.15009 Longitude: -81.03303
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
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