"Funeral photography's been around since the inception of photography," senior curator Geoff Barker said. In Victorian times, ...

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A women's funeral outfit and a viewing casket were on display inside the O'Connell House during Overland Trail Museum's History Café program on Victorian mourning and spiritualism Wednesday, Oct ...

In time for Halloween, Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles will present its 13th annual Mourning Tours, an interactive opportunity that explores how people during the Victorian era dealt with dea… ...

Oct. 2—From black-draped cloths over mirrors to an old wooden coffin resting on a stand in the hallway, the mourning period of the Victorian era is now on full display at Merrehope. Back for its ...

Then they took photos, and we see them lying on this bed of beautiful flowers.” Feet first, or else. Superstition had its place, too, in the Victorian funeral process.

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COLONIAL HEIGHTS — One of the gems of Colonial Heights is, no doubt, Violet Bank Museum where you can see exhibits from the periods between 1815 to 1873 including Civil War artifacts, guns, furniture, ...

Mourning, Victorian Style. The way New Yorkers responded to the 9/11 tragedy harkened back to the earlier Victorian-era styles ... such as photographs, pieces of clothing, and other tokens. The ...

October and Halloween bring thoughts of the dead, hauntings and spirits from beyond. They also form the subject — with a Victorian-era flavoring — for weekend events in Waco.