Remembering Lincoln is an IMLS-funded project of Ford's Theatre Society that serves to engage teachers, students, enthusiasts and scholars with primary sources detailing responses to the Lincoln assassination.
Remembering Lincoln is an IMLS-funded project of Ford's Theatre Society that serves to engage teachers, students, enthusiasts and scholars with primary sources detailing responses to the Lincoln assassination.
The high rate of twining among the Yoruba peoples gave birth to a genre of spiritual objects for mourning parents.
Mourning jewelry and other similar keepsakes became popular objects created and worn to honor a loved one or a person of importance. Queen Victoria unknowingly propagated the trend upon the death of her husband, Prince Albert, in 1861. In the United States, the Civil War took this trend to new heights, as the death toll […]
Caroline Barton, British Museum Mourning rings are an emotive form of jewellery; very few objects that we have the privilege of working with in the Treasure process have such potentially traceable histories, and academically they are of great interest. Examples such as the Littleton ring, which features in the ITV series Britain’s Secret Treasures can…
My Favorite Place reinterprets mourning and burial spaces as public sculptural objects. The surface area of the monolith contains an interactive network of lights, able to be digitally called by family and friends to emit a serene light indicating the interior location of the departed individual. The visibility of the monoliths shifts the process of mourning to be integrated into the city itself. The objects re-conceptualize the idea of death in direct opposition to conventional approaches of shrouding and marginalizing mourning spaces. The image of death will be a visual reminder integrated into daily life, thus de-stigmatizing it, creating a society where death is seen as a natural process of life.
Flowers are symbolic of beauty, love and tranquillity. They form the soul of a garden and convey the message of nature to man. Flowers and objects of aesthetic, ornamental, social, religious and cultural value. They are used for conveying love, happiness, grief, mourning etc.
Images, paintings, jewelry, clothing, tombstones, cemeteries, funerals, postmortems, and anything else applicable to mourning from 1500 to 1920.
Statuette, ivory, Mourning Mary, Indo-Portuguese (Goa) or Cingalo-Portuguese (Sri Lanka), ca. 1650
Memorial Wind Chimes Gifts Sympathy Personalized Gift with Deep Tones and Unique Outdoor Memorial Garden Keepsakes. Best Seller in Gifts for Grandma, bereavement support for friends and family, gift baskets and birthday calendars.
Mourning - 5 AM—the world is silent save for the heater
17th of october - tony starks death
Woman in mourning. She is wearing a bonnet with a full veil from the late 1840s to 1850 that sits back on the crown of her head with decorations on the lower half the bonnet.
This map was drawn on the afternoon of January 10th, 2024 - still reeling from the news of Jennell Jaquays' death. I finished it in three hours, and decided not to give it my usual hatching. It isn't the best memorial to her work (being a tower, it doesn't exactly lend itself to multiple pathings…
In the years following George Washington's death in 1799, popular mourning art was all the rage . One trendy motif was an elaboration on t...
Read reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Belladonna by Adalyn Grace meets A Study in Drowning in this sizzling gothic romantasy that fo…
Chrissy Piper - Heather Gabel, Victorian Mourning Dress
I accidentally came across this trade card below, for a Matthias Otto of The Strand, London, and for those who are regular readers of All Things Georgian, you will no doubt be aware of my interest in trade cards, but something about this one specific jumped out at me on this one. It was dated…
Victorian Mourning can be roughly divided into the years before and the years after Prince Albert's death.However while its often assumed that queen victorias lifelong mourning radically affected society the case is less clear .Certainly the "mourning industries" grew but the customs largely remained unchanged At the beginning of the reign there was a fairly…
Mourning or keepsake ring, gold, the bezel in the form of an oval locket, now empty, ornamented on lid with an enamelled eye; hoop with engraved floral design reserved on ground of black enamel; hollow with six openings in inner side, once contained hair. No maker's mark.
