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Mourning in Kentucky

Mourning ephemera and photographs

 
Americans have frequently used photographs and ephemera as part of their expressions of grief after the death of a family member, fraternal organization member, community member, or elected official. Funeral invitations and memorial cards were popular in the United States from mid-19th to early-20th centuries. Often when photographers were available, postmortems of the deceased, the deceased with family, the deceased with funeral attendees, burial sites, monuments, monuments with mourners, memorial flowers, and later family groups with portraits of deceased members provided lasting memorial tributes. Funeral home invoices and casket invoices provide relevant primary sources. Monument makers catalogs, invoices and mailings also provide evidence of the availability of professional tombstone craftsmen and companies.
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  • Funeral Viewing of Open Casket and Memorial Flowers by Kentucky Library Research Collection

    Funeral Viewing of Open Casket and Memorial Flowers

  • Charles Enoch of the Enoch Funeral Home in Bowling Green, KY at Fairview Cemetery. by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Charles Enoch of the Enoch Funeral Home in Bowling Green, KY at Fairview Cemetery.

  • G.A.R. & WAR Record of Woodford M. Houchin by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    G.A.R. & WAR Record of Woodford M. Houchin

  • Gerard Undertaking Business by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Gerard Undertaking Business

  • Memorial Floral Arrangements for Max B. Nahm's Grandmother by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Memorial Floral Arrangements for Max B. Nahm's Grandmother

  • Memorial Flowers by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Memorial Flowers

  • Cecil Murray Elrod Memorial Card by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Cecil Murray Elrod Memorial Card

  • Butler County, Kentucky, Hearse and James G. White by Kentucky Library Research Collection

    Butler County, Kentucky, Hearse and James G. White

  • Enoch Funeral Home, Bowling Green, Kentucky by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Enoch Funeral Home, Bowling Green, Kentucky

  • R.C.P. Thomas Funeral at State Street Methodist Church by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    R.C.P. Thomas Funeral at State Street Methodist Church

  • Cherry Family Mausoleum with Memorial Flowers, 1937 by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Cherry Family Mausoleum with Memorial Flowers, 1937

  • J. Warren Robinson Burial Site by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    J. Warren Robinson Burial Site

  • Tobias James Ham Gravesite by Kentucky Library Research Collection

    Tobias James Ham Gravesite

  • Floyd Collins Funeral by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Floyd Collins Funeral

  • Dan Ray Stone at his father Silas Jonathan Stone's Grave by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Dan Ray Stone at his father Silas Jonathan Stone's Grave

  • John Allen Jones Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    John Allen Jones Funeral Notice

  • Leslie Howell Memorial Card by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Leslie Howell Memorial Card

  • Women Faculty of College Street Public School by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Women Faculty of College Street Public School

  • Frankie Judy Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Frankie Judy Funeral Notice

  • Mrs. Cornelia V. Barkley Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collection

    Mrs. Cornelia V. Barkley Funeral Notice

  • Apotheosis of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Apotheosis of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington

  • James Hines Funeral Invitation by Kentucky Library Research Collection

    James Hines Funeral Invitation

  • Thornton F. Johnson Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Thornton F. Johnson Funeral Notice

  • Elizabeth McDaniel Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Elizabeth McDaniel Funeral Notice

  • Livina E. Pullen Walker Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Livina E. Pullen Walker Funeral Notice

  • John Adams, Sen., Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    John Adams, Sen., Funeral Notice

  • Andrew M. Price Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collection

    Andrew M. Price Funeral Notice

  • Mary Stevenson Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Mary Stevenson Funeral Notice

  • Joseph Miller Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Joseph Miller Funeral Notice

  • William Hubbell Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    William Hubbell Funeral Notice

  • Alexander Eckles Funeral Notice by Kentucky Library Research Collections

    Alexander Eckles Funeral Notice

 
 
 

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