Victorian Memento Mori Cab Cards

um is it because of Alice in Wonderland being published in 1865?

where is the best place to get these cards? I'm constantly checking my antique malls, but I guess it's too morbid for them!!

ok one more question...does it have to be an image of a dead person? Because I've found some and they are expensive? Or can we make our own from images we've found in the internet?

Why are they called "cab" cards? =curious=

if I'm not mistaken, cab is short for cabinet card.

Yes you can get them from the internet. What I usually go is save a picture I might like from ebay and send that puppy to walmart.com.

I am pretty sure they are dead people....though when I hve been looking it does not seem most are. But that always my impression of them.

And yes...cab is short for cabinet. Not sure why cabinet. I would think it would make more sense for them to be called Cad Cards...for cadaver

The last day is Nov 1 because that's the Day of the Dead. :)

It is actually called All Saints Day, because it is the day after Halloween which is All Souls Day.

aw I didn't see that it was the last day to sign up!! I saw it as the last day to send!!

I didn't think about the Wal-mart thing!! ok whew!! I'm going to join then!!!

Cabinet cards aren't always of dead people, but yeah, they usually look dead! Memento Mori, isn't that the term for the photos of the dead? I can't remember.

Awesome touch, Elizabeth, with the Day of the Dead connection. :)

Ahhh that's right Lishmo. I know that Memento Mori and Cab Cards are very similar but I always thought cab cards were dead people. But I think you are correct actually.

The name "Cabinet Cards" is just a style of photograph. It is a picture mounted on a card. I have two of them, one of my great-great grandmothers wedding and one of my great grandmother as a baby.

From my understanding(and this is from what my great grandmother told me) The photos of dead people were called "Mourning photos" during her time and are now called "Victorian Mourning photos" (I wish she were still alive because she knows all about this) Memento Mori is a style/genre of art which pre-dates the Victorian era.

Just for clarification, is this swap for the "Cabinet Cards" of possible live people, or for the "Victorian Mourning Photo" of dead people? Thanks.

'Memento Mori' means 'remember your mortality'. Lisa Vollrath has some images that work for this if you want to buy. I'll be watching

Sorry to add I made one for a swap in another group and you can see it here

Yes, Minimalist, This is for the older, black and white type pictures of possibly dead people or people that are obviously dead, meaning in coffins like the one stitchinwitch posted. But also there are pictures where the people are dead put posed in life like situations.

The posed ones are the ones I was really meaning to be used for this swap.

Thanks!

These are PC size, right?

They can be postcard sized yes. Depending on the size of the picture really. Some pictures do not come out very clear so they might have to be smaller. If the picture is smaller, just do more decoration.