37 results filtered with: Cremation
- Archives and manuscripts
M0011786: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a cinerary urn and remains of charred bones found in Seamill, Ayreshire, Scotland from a publication
Date: 1951Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/104/88Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 664499i
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Modern cremation: cremation, its history and practice to the present date : with information relating to all recently improved arrangements made by the Cremation Society of England / by Sir H. Thompson.
Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.Date: 1899
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Earth-burial and cremation : the history of earth-burial with its attendant evils, and the advantages offered by cremation.
Cobb, Augustus G.Date: 1892- Pictures
A burning ghat in Calcutta: a family preparing a body for cremation on a pile of logs.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 549142iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.
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Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 664506iPart of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta
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Cremation of a native American lying on a plank of wood above a fire; warning issued by the Californian Rural Indian Health Board to native Americans to practice safe sex. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 667676i
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Estudo sobre a cremação dos cadaveres / pelo Dr. Agostinho José de Souza Lima.
Lima, Agostinho José de Souza, 1842-1921.Date: 1883
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Cremation of the dead : its history and bearings upon public health / by William Eassie ; with illustrations.
Eassie, William, 1832-1888.Date: 1875
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Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 664310i
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Bombay (Mumbai): a body burning on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 664459i
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Burning the dead, or, Urn sepulture : religiously, socially, and generally considered : with suggestions for a revival of the practice, as a sanitary measure / by a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Date: 1857