,AMERICA REVOLUTIONS RARE PHOTO COLLECTIONS
,AMERICA REVOLUTIONS RARE PHOTO COLLECTIONS A very young Yankee private with a very large knife and checkered civilian trousers. Source: Horse Soldier Collection, Fold3.com eccentric-antiquities: Antique Victorian human hair in a decorative frame #freaky #hair #morbid #museum #face #skull #scientific #medical I consider this neither morbid nor freaky. The impulse to cling to some piece of a departed loved one is as natural as it is beautiful. Death was a more regular visitor in those days, its inevitability a pervasive fact, and life itself a visceral reckoning with mortality. There is a power in such remnants of abandoned architecture, a secret the elephant knows as it caresses familiar bones before returning once more to the migrations of its living herd. We held fast to what we could, when we could, cherishing such reminders of a love that does not die, until that day when we too left all earthly things behind. “OUR rattlesnake fl...