TWO Antique Funeral Mourning Flower Display Photos for Helen Meacham Chicago civil war and a fake pigtail braid

and a fake pigtail braid

There is an 1886 date on the back

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TWO Antique Funeral Mourning Flower Display Photos for Helen Meacham Chicago civil war and a fake pigtail braidTwo original cabinet card photos, both by Stevens of Chicago, Illinois, showing funeral flower displays for Helen A. Meacham, who died in 1884 at the age of 32. One of the displays spells out HELEN in the flowers. There is writing on the top back of the cards that is very hard to read, especially in my photos, but one says, "Helen, Died May 16, 1884". I was able to definitively identify her as Helen Meacham, based on that death date, location, and on