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William N. Hobbs
Georgiana Lovering, 12 years old murdered
1872
Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm
LL/18893
Lovering was murdered by her uncle at the age of thirteen in the woods outside her home. Apparently her uncle used a trap to take her out to the secluded woods where he killed her. There is a popular broadside published from the time recounting the horrors of the story. She was murdered October 25th, 1872. This is a perfect example of how photographers used older family portraits to make composite souvenir Images that would be for sale. Victorian emphasis on the sentimental played a large part as to why these images were commercially viable. Today, to sell a postcard of a murder victim or some other paraphernalia would be considered somehow indecent.
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