*g* It is odd that such things become charming at a distance of 100 years. Stratmann also made an interesting point that, until very recently with the advent of mobile phones-cum-cameras you didn't get these sorts of "as it happened" pictures in newspapers with photographs. Moreover their images are often deliberately fanciful with elements such as the souls of the dead watching on.
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Date: 2012-04-23 08:39 am (UTC)