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Casquette girl. Contemporary engraving depicting the departure of "comfort girls" to the New World. A casquette girl ( French: fille à la cassette) but also known historically as a casket girl or a Pelican girl, [1] was a woman brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. [2] [3] The name derives from the small chests ...
The coffin was last moved in 1861 to its final location in the fully restored chapel, under a canopied neo-Gothic tomb designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, with a recumbent marble figure by John Birnie Philip. Iconography This portrait, originally, and now identified as Catherine Parr, was wrongly identified as Lady Jane Grey for decades.
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
A Real Female Bluebeard Strange Tragedy of the Jealous Beauty and Her Thirty-five Unlucky Sweethearts, American Weekly (San Antonio Light Sunday magazine section), 22 Aug., 1925, p. 5 Siân Lavinia Anaïs Valeriana better known by her artist name The Raveness made Renczi the subject of one of her most popular poems to date, taken from her 2006 ...
Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnson. A coffin ship ( Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.
Roman funerary art. Marble cinerary chest (90–110 AD), made by Marcus Domitius Primigenius "for himself, his freedmen and freedwomen, and their descendants": the deceased makes an offering to a reclining female figure who may be Mother Earth, with two attendants holding food and wine ( Metropolitan Museum of Art) [1] The funerary art of ...
Photo show the coffins, furniture and other artifacts still inside the elaborate grave. ‘Rare’ 400-year-old tomb — with well-preserved interior — found in China. Look inside
After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, a three-week series of events was held to mourn the death and memorialize the life of the 16th president of the United States. Funeral services, a procession, and a lying in state were first held in Washington, D.C., then a funeral train transported Lincoln's remains 1,654 miles (2,662 ...