Capturing every sweet, mischievous expression that crosses a child’s face is made easy ... right); Erin Waters Fine Photographs (center) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Lee Marks and ...

The startling realization that Victorian infants were not reclining ... mothers might be productively renamed “cherished child photographs.” This label more accurately identifies their child ...

the youngest child has died and is propped against a stand for the picture Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England ...

Victorian novels chronicle the terrible ... But it is very like the mid-19th-century memento photographs taken of deceased children surrounded by their living siblings. The specter of death ...

Then the invention of photography changed everything ... Key Question: What can we learn from the records of Victorian child criminals? Historical enquiryPupils need to understand that as ...