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Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 664507i
Part of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta
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Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 664508i
Part of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta
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Sanitary disposal of the dead : a lecture / delivered by C.N. Peirce.
Peirce, C. N.Date: [1891], ©1891
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Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 47692i
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Cremation and cholera / by Edgar Sheppard.
Sheppard, Edgar, 1845-1921.Date: [1884?]
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Address on the progress of cremation in England : delivered at Hastings at the Health Congress, Thursday May 2nd 1889 / by Spencer Wells.
Wells, Spencer, 1818-1897.Date: [1889]
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Mourners, some in stovepipe hats, watching the burning of a funeral pyre. Watercolour by G. Bonwick, 1966.
Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966.Date: 28:3:66 [28 March 1966]Reference: 2913941i
Part of: Adamson Collection
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Death to dust : what happens to dead bodies? / Kenneth V. Iserson.
Iserson, Kenneth V.Date: [1994], ©1994
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Ashes to ashes : a cremation prelude / by Rev. H.R. Haweis.
Haweis, H. R. (Hugh Reginald), 1839-1901.Date: 1875
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Graves in a churchyard, marked by headstones, one of which is being tended by a figure dressed in blue. Watercolour by G. Bonwick, 1966.
Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966.Date: 15.3.66 [15 March 1966]Reference: 2913942i
Part of: Adamson Collection
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Cremation in Great Britain : the modern cremation movement - description of British crematories, etc., illustrated with numerous views, together with the Cremation Act, 1902 and regulation for carrying out cremation.
Date: 1909
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Report of proceedings of the Cremation Conference : held at Friends House Euston Road., London ... July 18, 19, 20, 1946.
Cremation Conference (1946 : London)Date: [1946?]
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Analysis of Roman cremation vessels by computerized tomography / T. Anderson, C. Fell.
Anderson, Trevor.Date: 1995
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The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint / by Hugo Erichsen ; with an introductory note by T. Spencer Wells.
Erichsen, Hugo, 1860-1944.Date: 1887
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La crémation en Italie et a l'étranger de 1774 jusqu'à nos jours / par G. Pini.
Pini, Gaetano, 1846-1887.Date: 1885
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New Orleans Cremation Society.
Date: 1885
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Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to set light to a funeral pyre, watched by men and boys. Photograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 664497i
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Modern cremation; its history and practice : with information relating to the recently improved arrangements made by the Cremation Society of England.
Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.Date: 1891
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God's acre beautiful, or, the cemeteries of the future / by W. Robinson.
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.Date: 1882
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Cremation in Great Britain : the modern cremation movement - Description of British crematories, etc. ... / [Cremation Society of England].
Cremation Society of England.Date: [1909]
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Cremation / Florence G. Fidler.
Fidler, Florence G., 1869-Date: 1930
Ephemera
Death and dying ephemera. Box 1.
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Cremation in Great Britain. : The modern cremation movement, description of British crematories, etc., illustrated with numerous views, together with the cremation act, 1902, and regulations for carrying out cremation.
Cremation Society of England.Date: 1909
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Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 664462i
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A quartercentury of cremation in North America ; being a report of progress in the United States and Canada for the last quarter of the nineteenth century; to which have been added, as an afterthought, a few words about the advance in Europe during the same period.
Cobb, John Storer.Date: 1901

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Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.

Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.

Sanitary disposal of the dead : a lecture / delivered by C.N. Peirce.

Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.

Cremation and cholera / by Edgar Sheppard.

Address on the progress of cremation in England : delivered at Hastings at the Health Congress, Thursday May 2nd 1889 / by Spencer Wells.

Mourners, some in stovepipe hats, watching the burning of a funeral pyre. Watercolour by G. Bonwick, 1966.

Death to dust : what happens to dead bodies? / Kenneth V. Iserson.

Ashes to ashes : a cremation prelude / by Rev. H.R. Haweis.

Graves in a churchyard, marked by headstones, one of which is being tended by a figure dressed in blue. Watercolour by G. Bonwick, 1966.

Cremation in Great Britain : the modern cremation movement - description of British crematories, etc., illustrated with numerous views, together with the Cremation Act, 1902 and regulation for carrying out cremation.

Report of proceedings of the Cremation Conference : held at Friends House Euston Road., London ... July 18, 19, 20, 1946.

Analysis of Roman cremation vessels by computerized tomography / T. Anderson, C. Fell.

The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint / by Hugo Erichsen ; with an introductory note by T. Spencer Wells.

La crémation en Italie et a l'étranger de 1774 jusqu'à nos jours / par G. Pini.

New Orleans Cremation Society.

Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to set light to a funeral pyre, watched by men and boys. Photograph.

Modern cremation; its history and practice : with information relating to the recently improved arrangements made by the Cremation Society of England.

God's acre beautiful, or, the cemeteries of the future / by W. Robinson.

Cremation in Great Britain : the modern cremation movement - Description of British crematories, etc. ... / [Cremation Society of England].

Cremation / Florence G. Fidler.

Death and dying ephemera. Box 1.

Cremation in Great Britain. : The modern cremation movement, description of British crematories, etc., illustrated with numerous views, together with the cremation act, 1902, and regulations for carrying out cremation.

Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.

A quartercentury of cremation in North America ; being a report of progress in the United States and Canada for the last quarter of the nineteenth century; to which have been added, as an afterthought, a few words about the advance in Europe during the same period.