The Victorian Book of the Dead

Stonecutter daguerreotype: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/cph/3d00000/3d02000/3d02000/3d02040v.jpg A DEALER IN SECOND HAND TOMBSTONES Standing in a little shack, located back of the high billboards at Eighteenth and Walnut streets on the

https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/Go5zEvp3aj5w3 THE INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL And an Industry that does not Revive.

IN LONDON’S DOG CEMETERY SOME INTERESTING EPITAPHS The remains of “Laddie,” the beautiful Scotch collie belonging to Lord Airlie, of “the bonny house of Airlie,” who recently met his fate in a cavalry charge at the head of his men in South Africa, have be…

An illustration for the “Post Mortem” chapter from A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death PHOTOGRAPHING THE DEAD ONES WORK IS NOT PLEASANT AND PHOTOGRAPHERS HAVE HARD AND SORROWFUL TASKS.

HUMAN PHOSPHATES.

Black corset, Worcester Corset Co, 1893 http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/158021?

Mourning Attire Changed Radically New York Sun.

A Disconsolate Widow Wants a Photograph of a Funeral Profession.

THEIR OCCUPATION GONE.

The Corpse and the Dog.