Weekend Compendium: 16 January 2016
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 16, 2016
in Costume History , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , lethal clothing , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , extravagant funerals , French couture , French models , frozen ghosts , frozen to death , funeral jobs , funeral service , mannequins , Minnesota ghosts , mourning customs , mourning professions , poisoned stockings , Spiritualism , weekend compendium
O, Death, Where Is Thy Bling? The Gilded Age was a golden age for the conspicuous consumption of coffins and other funerary goods, inspiring a kind of mortuary arms race. Keeping up with the Boneses…. Two Victorian examples.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 4, 2014
in Death , Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths
and tagged Death , extravagant funerals , extravagant Victorian funerals , funerary excess , mausoleum , Mrs "Diamond" Johnson , Mrs Henry Hiller , O , Victorian funerals , Where Is Thy Bling?
