Comments on: Your door is a jar. My mother is a chair.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 19:41:39 +0000

I have worked as a child’s photography, and I don’t think the photo is creepy but smart. Some kids just do not want to cut the apron strings. Some photographers just thought of a good way to keep Victorian kids from screaming.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:51:28 +0000

I have a small child – photographers still use this technique to keep infants settled!! Nowadays it tends to be a sheet of black velvet draoed over the mother.

By: Sophia

Sophia — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:49:02 +0000

I think the child is being held by the Nanny. A Black Nanny from what I see in the photo. I belive that back in those days it was uncommon for any household help be involved in a picture of the family, so they draped the nanny as part a the chair…then the photographer could edit as he wished.

By: John Dough

John Dough — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:03:01 +0000

Seems to me to be a very clever way to keep the baby from crying or freaking out so its picture can be taken.

By: Kathi

Kathi — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:06:10 +0000

Speaking of strange Victorian customs, I saw a book of Victorian photographs of corpses dressed and posed in their homes to look as if they were still alive. Talk about creepy!

By: bob

bob — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:44:46 +0000

My mother is a fish

By: Linda Duggan

Linda Duggan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:14:34 +0000

This picture gives me the creeps too!

By: hannah

hannah — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:48:50 +0000

or rather, *anybody!

By: hannah

hannah — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:48:11 +0000

I don’t know about anyboyd else, but this picture gives me an insanely creepy feeling!

By: Eric Frank

Eric Frank — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:18:24 +0000

Well, they did treat women like objects back then.