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Rube Burrow
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Kathy Pinna
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07/07/2016
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AncientFaces
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01/21/2020
130 years ago, law and order was a bit different - as were sensibilities. This notorious train robber was shot "while trying to escape" - and displayed to thousands while being transported for burial. Souvenirs - such as buttons off his jacket, his boots, and locks of his hair were taken.
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Ancient faces can you come up with some happy history stories as your page is becoming a bit to morbid these days
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Sure! Just look at the past few days - and more will be coming! ;)
Ree Young
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01/21/2020
I've not noticed any more morbid stories than usual.
I like history. All sides of it is, I think, important to know in order to help keep the present day in perspective. Sometimes people go on about how much better, nicer, prettier, and so on things were in the "old days." I'm 71, and my parents were born in 1902 and 1908. Things were NOT better in their day or in my younger days.
I like history. All sides of it is, I think, important to know in order to help keep the present day in perspective. Sometimes people go on about how much better, nicer, prettier, and so on things were in the "old days." I'm 71, and my parents were born in 1902 and 1908. Things were NOT better in their day or in my younger days.
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Jennifer Guerra hey Jennifer my sister in is a Guerra but we are from Australia 🇦🇺
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Lena Gargano-Reddy history is morbid, so is the present
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Lena Gargano-Reddy Agree.. sure this is history too, but.. well, too much of the sad and morbid stuff...
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They’re keeping it real LOL. These things happened and education is important
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Fun note about old photography- death photos were more common than living photos, because they were extremely expensive and people usually only got a death photo in their lifetime. Photography only became a celebration of living when the price dropped dramatically in the 50s/60s, but still wasnt particularly common until the digital age made it everyday
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Lena Gargano-Reddy I find it quite heartwarming.
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They were tough old days, and folks had to be tough, I am 83yrs , and back then people struggled to just survive.My forebears did that on N.Z. s West Coast, mining and producing children.I feel myself , the good days here in N.Z. were mid 50s to 80s we could capitlise on our child benefit 10shillings a week ,get a lump sum , and have our first home.It was a blessing to many families.That was a Labour Govt, started that,mid 80s the rot set in, as I see it.The Greedy,s took over just about every aspect of our lives. and as I see it, most things have gone down hill since then.Just my view, Mo.
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Lena Gargano-Reddy I think ALL history is interesting
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Amy Gilmore Sometimes these photos are the only picture of the deceased! History for sure! Thanks for sharing!
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AncientFaces History has been morbid. Don't sugarcoat it for the rest of us. This is fascinating.
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Lena Gargano-Reddy life is brutal! Get a sense of perspective
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PLEASE keep it AS-IS! 👏😉 Most interesting page I've come across so far!!! 👏 ⭐ 😉 ⭐ 💖
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Ree Young I suppose better depends on what the subject is being talked about.
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Death displays were a pretty morbid practice. 😟
Ree Young
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01/21/2020
To us and in our society, but not to all societies or in all time periods.
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Vickie Duke Allen but f****** cool. I support the death penalty today, expedited, and on Pay Per View. I would totally pay to see some of the US 3400 death row inmates put down. No rehabilitation for these losers and no use for them. Death Row should be a "row" of electric bleachers. Bzzzzz...zzzzz...zzz-zzzzzzz... mutha f-er!
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Could they not at least have closed his eyes. Good Grief!
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Anne Ostrem Ray These were tougher times, realistic times.....
Ellen Ruggles
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So, I enlarged the original as best I could. STILL can't say definitively that his eyes were open?!
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AncientFaces I looked again either a magnifying glass and you are right.
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😞😞 He was somebody's baby, cuddly - little boy, at one time and someone loved him...I don't think our species has ever had much "humanity" - just look at the way we treat animals - but in some centuries - we have had a little more class and sensibilities. Not this century - but, in the past - in certain places. Don't get me wrong - I support the death penalty in all violent cases no matter the AGE of the Perp. I do believe there are in fact, "Rabid Dogs" in human beings - but gloating, holier than thou, money grubbers do offend me - mostly because I get sick and tired of appologizing for the IDIOTS !!
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Karen Riner was thinking that too. Somewhere along with, the mundane- ness of that RxR crosswalk underneath him.
It was a day like today. No different.
Same sky, same moon.
In the whole scheme of things this moment was but a millisecond ago.
If we all could only just get along.
It was a day like today. No different.
Same sky, same moon.
In the whole scheme of things this moment was but a millisecond ago.
If we all could only just get along.
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There had to be ‘witnesses’ of his death, in order for people to know that he was no longer a threat....I could imagine. Kind of like a news event, but with no tv, so they would show the deceased outlaw to as many people.
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Always wonder how these individuals grew up. What their life story was, how they fell into the life they did.
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Photos of the dead had two basic purposes back in those days. One was to verify that a criminal was actually dead. The second one is a reminder of what their loved ones looked like. Especially children. Not uncommon to photograph a dead child for memory’s sake.
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Pat Hatley memento mori photos fascinate me like no other!
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Pat Hatley how come they were able to verify if a criminal was dead by taking a picture?
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Pat Hatley, and perhaps as deterrents to criminals of that time period.
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Well, if you don't want to die and your body be displayed, don't do crime... Even thousands of years ago and in other countries, it was common for criminals' bodies to be displayed publicly as a warning to other potential criminals. Some hangings even stayed up until the buzzards had eaten all their flesh. Not exactly sanitary, but I'm sure it did cut down on crime rates. They lost their right to respect when they decided to be a criminal. But these days, there is such sympathy given to criminals, especially in the media. The brains required to be a good criminal, imagine what else they could do if they lived their lives for good. Be a decent human, live a respectable life and be a responsible citizen... That's not hard.
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And they buried him with his firearms?????? There's a waste, someone could have used them! 😁
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Probably sold those off after the picture too.
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They would have been sold or traded to cover burial most of the time.
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That's the difference between time periods, we are born too. We think this way n those days, it was different.
Marie Gonzalez
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Marie Gonzalez
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Marie Gonzalez
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Marie Very interesting and sad story. Thanks for sharing it.
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