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I don’t think you missed anything. It’s just different people and different things work for them.

• jcims 4y ago
  Totally agree. We have no concept of what it was like back then. Death was ever present. In the 1850's in the US the child mortality rate was ~40%, meaning just over half of the children born lived to the age of five. It would be expected that a mother and a father would find more than one of their children deceased at some point in their lives. If it weren't for these photographs there would be in most cases no surviving image of these children. I can imagine as a parent there would be some burden to give your child's existence some durability.