<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/15dbbb1e-bbe9-4049-92cc-ece95a69bb8f/64402265-EC5D-4078-B1B9-F5E06DBCFD0C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-young-mother-mourning" href="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-young-mother-mourning" style="font-size: 11px;">www.worthpoint.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-young-mother-mourning"><SPAN class="hgold">Scrimshaw: Young Mother In Mourning</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-young-mother-mourning"><P><A rel="lightbox[2455663]" href="http://www.worthpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/motherinmourning-1.jpg" class="lightbox-enabled"><IMG width="179" height="300" alt="Image 1 - Mother in Mourning" src="http://www.worthpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/motherinmourning-1-179x300.jpg" title="Image 1 - Mother in Mourning" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2456204" /></A>Infant mortality in antebellum (pre-Civil War) America was quite high, especially in tight-knit New England cities, where contagions could be easily spread from child-to-child. Poor diet, scarce & crude medical care, extreme weather, and other factors contributed to childhood deaths that often approached 1 in 4, before the age of 10.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-young-mother-mourning"><P>Several studies document & graph these numbers. See: <A rel="nofollow" title="http://www.cairn.info/article_p.php?ID_ARTICLE=ADH_101_0033" href="http://www.cairn.info/article_p.php?ID_ARTICLE=ADH_101_0033">http://www.cairn.info/article_p.php?ID_ARTICLE=ADH_101_0033</A> <A rel="nofollow" title="http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~fe2r/papers/mortality.pdf" href="http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/%7Efe2r/papers/mortality.pdf">http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~fe2r/papers/mortality.pdf</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-young-mother-mourning"><P>Based on the woman’s dress, this antebellum era scrimwork depicts a young mother in shock, handkerchief in hand, dressed in mourning black, alongside the coffin of her infant, also draped in black. By the look of this woman’s young age, the deceased may have been an only child.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-young-mother-mourning"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.worthpoint.com/img/FF6D9744-341E-41C3-BA94-BC98E8FB06F6" alt="Image 2 - Mother in Mourning (cropped)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-young-mother-mourning"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><STRONG><A href="http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/scrimshaw-mystery-solved" class="rednav">A Scrimshaw Mystery Solved!</A></STRONG> <SPAN class="pgray">I like a good mystery! 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