In Victorian England, it was common to take photos with the corpses of the recently deceased. The girl in this picture is dead

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Postmortem photographs from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century showing how families preserved memories of their loved ones when photography was still a new and rare art

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A mother and daughter hamming it up for the camera, ca 1900

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Mugshots of Victorian Era Child Criminals, 1870s

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Adorable series of mother and daughter photographs from 1900.

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Tintype of a Mother posing with her child, circa 1860-70s.

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Margaret Care, aged 14, when she was admitted into Barnardo’s Home, 273 Mare Street, Hackney, April 11th, 1900, after the deaths of her parents from tuberculosis. She spent just over a year in the home before she caught pulmonary tuberculosis and passed away.

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Four Generations, circa 1905

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Some photos of people smiling and having fun during the Victorian Era (late 1800s)

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A lovely family portrait from the 1800s

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Portrait of a young grumpy girl from the 1850s

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Mugshots of Victorian Era Child Criminals, 1870s

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Siblings Tilla, Minna and Otto Witte, Wisconsin, circa 1894.