Saturday, April 25, 2015

Souvenirs of Murder.

Luminous-Lint, a website devoted to history, evolution and analysis of photography has a great on-line exhibition of 19th century British and American murder photographs: Murder Most Foul: A Selection of Nineteenth Century Murder Cases. These portraits of killers and their victims were sold to the public as souvenirs of the murders. Here are some photos from the exhibition, pertaining to murders already covered at Murder by Gaslight, including a young Lizzie Borden: 


Josie Langmaid
 

Jennie Cramer
Found Drifting with the Tide
 
Rose Clark Ambler
 

Harry Hayward, Claus Blixt, Adry Hayward,
Catherine Ging
The Minneapolis Svengali
 

Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden Took an Axe...Or Did She?

2 comments :

Tessa says:
April 28, 2016 at 4:39 AM

Josie Langmaid was beautiful.

Tessa says:
April 28, 2016 at 4:40 AM

Josie Langmaid was beautiful.

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