Old portraits of children with creepy 'ghostmothers' in the background show how far mums would go for a good photo
By Daily Mail Reporter|
In the early days of photography, many well-off families jumped at the chance to have their precious children's likeness captured for eternity.
The one trick that they had to deal with next, after finding photographers willing to set up the bulky equipment and travelling to the portrait location, was getting the little babies to sit still for the entirety of the session.
As a result, many photographers enlisted the help of the children's mothers, with often creepy outcomes.
Tricks: Mothers covered themselves in black
cloth and hold their children upright while getting portraits taken back
in the 1800s, resulting in odd figures in the photos
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