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This is the frontispiece to an illustrated edition of 'a modern Arabian nights story'. (hint for this field, class: this could be an abstract, description or table of contents that already exists about your item, or it could be a free text account of…

A zine containing pictures of skaters, comics, stories, art and miscellany.

An account of James J. Strang, the religious American leader who reigned over Beaver Island, MI from 1850 until 1856 when he was assassinated. It not only documents the rise and fall of his monarchy but also details his career as a writer and…

A photo of Jessica Mitford featured in the BBC article, "The Woman Who Forced Us to Look Death in the Face" by David Robson

The chart depicts the correlation between the average cost of dying (discriminating between the costs of direct cremation, immediate burial, and full service funeral) and location. To this end, the costs of dying are depicted for ten U.S. cities in…

The two photographs depict (1) a table of funeral expenditures by year, showing the overall shift in cost from 1929 through 1960, and (2) a description thereof that explains the data's utility.

The facts and figures of a 1958 survey of funeral income and expense data

A book review of Le Roy Bowman's "The American Funeral" in which grief is explored in the context of lavish and expensive funeral services

A letter from Arthur Colton describing his thoughts on the human interest in viewing the deceased person.

The following is an article in the National FS Journal which examines the psychology of price in funeral services, calling into question the efficacy of money in alleviating feelings of guilt. It also discusses the funeral as a symbol of status, one…