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Unidentified dead baby
1870-1875
Glass photonegative
Glass photonegative
This photograph of a dead child, with a wreath of dianthus and surrounded by eucalypt leaves and roses, is a reminder of the high mortality of children in the nineteenth century. In the 1870s, about a quarter of all children in Australia died before five years of age, usually from diarrhoea and intestinal diseases.