Sepulchral monuments -- Pictorial works
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Photograph album
Collection — Box small col. 49
Identifier: Col-1035
William Frost Mobley collection of funeral and mourning ephemera
Collection
Identifier: Col-0006
Scope and Contents
The papers are a collection of American ephemera related to funerals and mourning customs. It consists of a wide variety of mostly late nineteenth century printed materials that document American funerary and mourning practices of the time. The collection includes manuscript bills for grave-digging, burial and gravestones; printed eulogies and elegies; printed invitations to funerals, 1827-1925; printed and pictorial billheads for funeral-related businesses, 1838-1916; printed memorial...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1809-1963, 1855-1909
Found in:
Winterthur Library