This pretty little post mortem photograph (which is actually a daguerrotype) comes from the Henisch Collection of Penn State Library. At first glance I thought it was mis-labelled – she looks quite lifelike.
But if you zoom in on the image it’s possible to see that the little girl’s eyes have been tampered with after processing, so I’m happy to go with it being ‘post mortem’.
The library have added the following information:
(American)
Post-mortem of a little girl, late 1840s
Daguerreotype
1/6 plate
Hand-tinted.
You can find the original image here
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