Deathmasks throughout history
March 16th - 10 Responses

lincoln.jpg Be prepared to lose some sleep tonight. Princeton University have their impressive collection of death masks online, documented in a series of creepy photos, displaying death masks throughout history. Some amazing examples are on display, for instance, this one to the right, Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States of America, and others like Sir Isaac Newton, Napoleon III and James Dean.

See more of the Laurence Hutton Collection of Death Masks at Princeton’s site or hit the jump below for a few spooky examples








Tolstoy, Leo, Graf (1828-1910)
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Newton, Isaac, Sir (1642-1727)
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Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (1808-1873)
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