Occupational Portrait of Three Grave Diggers Posing With a Recently Dug Grave in a Cemetery (1860s)

 

Portrait of three grave diggers posing with a recently dug grave in a cemetery, location unknown, c. 1860s. Attributed to Mathew Brady. Note the blanket in the foreground used for collecting dirt from the grave as it is being dug. Also, a possible hearse is seen in the background at the top of the hill at left.

Source: National Portrait Gallery.

Dead Confederate Soldiers in the Bloody Lane With Union Soldiers Posing Behind Them After the Battle of Antietam (1862)

Dead Confederate soldiers in the Bloody Lane with Union soldiers, probably part of a burial detail, posing behind them after the Battle of Antietam, 1862. By Alexander Gardner. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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