Dig: A History Podcast

Photos of the Dead: Victorian Postmortem Photography and the Case of the Standing Corpse


Listen Later

Creepy, Occult & Spooky Series #1 of 4. We commemorate and document life through photographs, and have been doing so since the 19th century. But photography has also been used to document death. In this episode we are discussing Victorian postmortem photography. This has received a lot of interest on the internet lately as Victorian memento mori photographs have become rather popular on certain internet sites. And although many of the pictures on those sites are in fact postmortem photographs, many are not. They are either completely fake, or they are pictures of living people being passed off as postmortem photos. Find show notes, affiliate links and the transcript at digpodcast.org

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Dig: A History PodcastBy Recorded History Podcast Network

  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7

4.7

362 ratings


More shows like Dig: A History Podcast

View all
Stuff You Missed in History Class by iHeartPodcasts

Stuff You Missed in History Class

23,787 Listeners

History Extra podcast by Immediate Media

History Extra podcast

3,228 Listeners

Election College | Presidential Election History by The Recorded History Podcast Network

Election College | Presidential Election History

226 Listeners

Our Fake History by PodcastOne

Our Fake History

3,475 Listeners

Sunday School Dropouts by Recorded History Podcast Network

Sunday School Dropouts

555 Listeners

Second Decade by Sean Munger

Second Decade

187 Listeners

The Explorers Podcast by Matt Breen

The Explorers Podcast

1,523 Listeners

The Art History Babes by Recorded History Podcast Network

The Art History Babes

795 Listeners

Stuff What You Tell Me! || Rebellion and Resistance in History, Art and Culture by Republic of Amsterdam Radio

Stuff What You Tell Me! || Rebellion and Resistance in History, Art and Culture

39 Listeners

Portraits of Blue & Grey: The Biographical Civil War Podcast by Recorded History Podcast Network

Portraits of Blue & Grey: The Biographical Civil War Podcast

384 Listeners

Ologies with Alie Ward by Alie Ward

Ologies with Alie Ward

24,463 Listeners

Behind the Bastards by Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Behind the Bastards

15,613 Listeners

History of the World podcast by Chris Hasler

History of the World podcast

915 Listeners

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life. by John Fea

The Way of Improvement Leads Home: American History, Religion, Politics, and Academic life.

119 Listeners

Talking Tudors by Natalie Grueninger

Talking Tudors

735 Listeners

Dead Ideas: The History of Extinct Thoughts and Practices by B. T. Newberg and history nerd friends

Dead Ideas: The History of Extinct Thoughts and Practices

143 Listeners

Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

Bad Gays

499 Listeners

Noble Blood by iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Noble Blood

13,598 Listeners

This Day by Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

This Day

990 Listeners

The Ancients by History Hit

The Ancients

3,304 Listeners

Gone Medieval by History Hit

Gone Medieval

1,881 Listeners

Not Just the Tudors by History Hit

Not Just the Tudors

2,065 Listeners

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society by History Hit

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

1,383 Listeners

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff by Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

834 Listeners