Black and white photograph of a very large, floral set piece mounted on a board. The panel design features roses and foliage with floral lettering that reads “Employees of Young Bros.” This design was probably created for a funeral of a former employee, owner, or loyal customer of Young Brothers. The panel is mounted on a foliage entwined easel and features a plaque indicating the design was created by "Le Moult, the Florist."
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Flower arrangements are some of the most common subject matters for memorial photographs made in the nineteenth century. Cabinet cards, stereo cards, and other photographic formats are seen depicting memorial flowers, sometimes combined with other mourning imagery, phrases, or a photograph of the deceased when alive. Simple wording such as, “our baby,” “our darling,” “brother,” “sister,” “son,” “daughter,” etc. were commonly seen surrounded by a creative still life composition made from the sympathy tributes. Having these photographs taken was affordable, and in the case of notable figures, the pictures were mass-produced for sale to the public. This type of memorial photograph was most popular between 1895 and 1910. The images were often kept by the family as remembrance of the deceased individual and the outpouring of love and sympathy received in their time of greatest loss; often made into parlor cards, openly displayed in the home, or kept in a photographic album.
