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[PHOTOS] Creepy Pictures Parents Used To Take of Their Dead Children

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Parents whose children died during early childhood would dress them up and pose them for a photo, they would use to help them deal with their loss.  Today it just seems very creepy and some of the pictures are especially disturbing.

An image of a mother posing with her dead child taken in the USA, 1840s.A dead boy, circa 1901

This image of a little girl, taken around 1859, clearly became a precious keepsake for a family overcome with grief

This family have lost two children, apparently to the same illness. The youngsters are dressed in their Sunday best and posed for a final photograph. This image was taken somewhere in America in the late 19th century

A remarkable collection of these pictures can be found on the Thanatos Archive.

This image, from 1875, apparently shows a dead teenage girl clutching a Bible, as if to protect her in the after-life

This image shows a child who could easily be sleeping. Her right hand appears wounded and her dress bloodstained but it is thought this effect was simply due to a corruption of the daguerreotype

This image, from 1860, is especially macabre. It is not clear if the child died with her eyes open or if they have been propped open, but as she lies in her mother's embrace, the image is disquieting

This dead boy's eyes have been propped open as he lies on a 'fainting couch' in an image taken in 1853

Twin boys are photographed together in St Charles, Michigan, in 1900. They presumably succumbed to the same epidemic

This young man has been laid out in his best suit. It is unclear if the mark on his forehead is a gunshot wound or just a mistake on the daguerreotype

One of the most gruesome images in the collection is this triptych of a little girl - her eyes open, seated in a chair and seen in her coffin

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