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Collections at the museum included a re-created 1920s embalming room, coffins and funeral paraphernalia from various cultures and times, examples of post-mortem photography, and a scale model of Lincoln's funeral train. The museum hosted tours and special events, and provided resources to scholars who were researching funeral customs.
The undertaker, funeral director as we would call them today, would travel to the home where the corpse would be ready for embalming. At times, families would request that the corpse not be embalmed. At this time, the undertaker would bring a cooling board or corpse cooler to assist with lowering the body temperature to slow the decaying ...
A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin, or the passage of heavy ...
Embalming is the art and science of preserving human remains by treating them with embalming chemicals in modern times to forestall decomposition. [1] [2] This is usually done to make the deceased suitable for viewing as part of the funeral ceremony or keep them preserved for medical purposes in an anatomical laboratory.
Funeral coin is used for coins issued on the occasion of the death of a prominent person, mostly a ruling prince or a coin-lord. Funeral games are athletic competitions held in honor of a recently deceased person. [12] Funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant ...
William Brown Building: William Brown Building: August 10, 2000 : 226-228 South Main Street: Rockford: 4: Chicago & North Western Railway Stone Arch Bridge: Chicago & North Western Railway Stone Arch Bridge: August 19, 1993
Demolished buildings and structures in Wyoming (6 P) S. Defunct schools in Wyoming (10 P)
John Sebastian Trares Building 222-224-226 North Main Street 1885 Mar-1999 N/A Bohm Building 100 Main Street 1910 Jun-1999 N/A Lincoln School 1210 North Main Street 1911 Jun-1999 N/A Madison County Poor Farm 333 S. Main Street c. 1861 Razed in 2009 Dec-2000 N/A Dippold House 923 Grand Avenue 1895 Oct-2023 N/A Lustron House 1320 Grand Avenue 1949