1900s Ghostly Family Cabinet Photo
I’ve picked up a number of cabinet portraits, but this one is particularly spooky. The grime and grunge of the photo adds to the atmosphere, but look at the girls face. It’s blank and washed out, like some strange ghost. This is the sort of photo you’d see on the wall of a Gothic haunted house film, and the austere straight at you stare of the girls parents doesn’t help matters. It really make me shudder this one.
In picture #5, the “blank” look can be attributed to the fact that she was dead. This is the Victorian era genre of last pictures taken with their loved ones. If you look down at her feet, you will see the contraption that was used to “prop” up the bodies. Google it.