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 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…