1. Notes: 36 / 1 year ago  from liquidnight
   

   liquidnight:Woman Advertising J.M. Dolph, Furniture Maker and Undertaker

   W. Peppets Art Gallery, Homer, Michigan

   Cabinet card, circa 1877

   A peculiar advertising photographic pictorial was devised during the 1870s. Women were posed holding signs heralding businesses, their dresses and bodies decorated with life-size objects related to the business. This woman’s hat is adorned with rings from coffin robes. On her chest, she sports a coffin plate, and above and beneath that plate are handles from a coffin. Around her neck is another coffin plate, and coffin chains and paraphernalia hang from her dress. Furniture makers became coffin makers as a natural extension of woodworking skills. The large frame [on the skirt of her dress] indicates this establishment also made frames.

   From Sleeping Beauty II - Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography by Stanley B. Burns, M.D.

    

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      mother of pearl, i love history.

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       Eerie isn’t it?

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       man, things are crazy all the time [see: the internet and memes, etc] but i love looking at it out of context.

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   29. billyjane said: what a wonderful find,i remember seeing examples of this advertising method @ anonymous works some time last year;]
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