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Box 34

 Container

Contains 7 Results:

Automatic Sealing Burial Vault (sample, ceramic, 3” x 6.5”), undated

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael McDowell Death Collection is comprised of 76 boxes, and spans the years 1616 – 2005.  The collection was assembled by McDowell based on his interest in the subject matter, and includes correspondence, photographs (including photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, and stereographs), memorial cards, jewelry, hairwork, scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, and artifacts.  In most cases the items in this collection were purchased by McDowell, or were given to him by...
Dates: undated

Box containing chalk and powder “for hiding bruises and black eyes”, approximately 1940s

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael McDowell Death Collection is comprised of 76 boxes, and spans the years 1616 – 2005.  The collection was assembled by McDowell based on his interest in the subject matter, and includes correspondence, photographs (including photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, and stereographs), memorial cards, jewelry, hairwork, scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, and artifacts.  In most cases the items in this collection were purchased by McDowell, or were given to him by...
Dates: approximately 1940s

Funeral car flag, purple/white, approximately 1940s

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael McDowell Death Collection is comprised of 76 boxes, and spans the years 1616 – 2005.  The collection was assembled by McDowell based on his interest in the subject matter, and includes correspondence, photographs (including photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, and stereographs), memorial cards, jewelry, hairwork, scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, and artifacts.  In most cases the items in this collection were purchased by McDowell, or were given to him by...
Dates: approximately 1940s

Funeral placard for car, black, approximately 1930s

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael McDowell Death Collection is comprised of 76 boxes, and spans the years 1616 – 2005.  The collection was assembled by McDowell based on his interest in the subject matter, and includes correspondence, photographs (including photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, and stereographs), memorial cards, jewelry, hairwork, scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, and artifacts.  In most cases the items in this collection were purchased by McDowell, or were given to him by...
Dates: approximately 1930s

Funeral placard for car, purple, approximately 1940s

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael McDowell Death Collection is comprised of 76 boxes, and spans the years 1616 – 2005.  The collection was assembled by McDowell based on his interest in the subject matter, and includes correspondence, photographs (including photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, and stereographs), memorial cards, jewelry, hairwork, scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, and artifacts.  In most cases the items in this collection were purchased by McDowell, or were given to him by...
Dates: approximately 1940s

Traveling salesman’s kit of tombstone designs, 1935

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael McDowell Death Collection is comprised of 76 boxes, and spans the years 1616 – 2005.  The collection was assembled by McDowell based on his interest in the subject matter, and includes correspondence, photographs (including photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, and stereographs), memorial cards, jewelry, hairwork, scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, and artifacts.  In most cases the items in this collection were purchased by McDowell, or were given to him by...
Dates: 1935

White gloves, package, “National Casket Company”, approximately 1930s

 File — Box: 34, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Michael McDowell Death Collection is comprised of 76 boxes, and spans the years 1616 – 2005.  The collection was assembled by McDowell based on his interest in the subject matter, and includes correspondence, photographs (including photographic prints, daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes, and stereographs), memorial cards, jewelry, hairwork, scrapbooks, ledgers, newsclippings, and artifacts.  In most cases the items in this collection were purchased by McDowell, or were given to him by...
Dates: approximately 1930s