Sleeping Beauty: A Postmortum photograph Although this type of photograph makes up the largest percentage of 19th century genre photography in America, most go unseen. Some photos, especially those of women and infants, appeared as though the subject was merely asleep, only waiting for someone to wake them. "We take great pains to have minatures of Deceased persons agreeable and satisfactory, and they are often so natural as to seem, even to Artists, in a quiet sleep."- Southworth and Hawes, Boston, 1846