RECREATING 19th CENTURY DEATH & MOURNING PHOTOGRAPHS @AskAMortician
RECREATING 19th CENTURY DEATH & MOURNING PHOTOGRAPHS  @AskAMortician
Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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***CREDITS***

Mortician: Caitlin Doughty
Tintype Photographer: Jolene Lupo (@jolenelupo)
Tintype Photography Assistant: Lizzy Nahum-Albright
Mourning Women: Ann Haddad & Emily Hill-Wright
Producer & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1)
Editor & Graphics: Landis Blair (@landisblair)

This video could not have been possible without the Merchant's House Museum, the museum staff and volunteers, Margaret Halsey Gardiner, and Penumbra Foundation.

Special thanks to Lizzy, Ann, Emily, and Jenny (Molly from the first Victorian mourning video!) for so generously donating their time and talent (especially for staying VERY STILL FOR VERY LONG) to the creation of this video. DREAM TEAM.

***MUSIC***

Greta Sting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100530
Artist: incompetech.com

Merry Go Slower by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100732
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Air Prelude by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100337
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***SELECTED SOURCES/ADDITIONAL READING***

Beyond the Dark Veil
The Thanatos Archive. Grand Central Press & Last Gasp, 2015.

Death in the Victorian Family
Jalland, Pat. Oxford University Press Inc., New York. 1996.

The Victorian Book of the Dead
Woodyard, Chris. Kestral Publications, Chris Woodyard, 2014.

"The Lost Ritual of Photographing the Dead"
hyperallergic.com/214713/the-lost-ritual-of-photographing-the-dead

Penumbra Foundation
penumbrafoundation.org
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