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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 EnglandDate: 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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Storia documentata della cremazione i popoli antichi ed i moderni con speciale riferimento alla igiene.
Maccone, Luigi.Date: 1932
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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 StorerDate: 1901
Archives and manuscripts
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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/1/20/1/104/88
Part 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.
Sir Henry Thompson, 1st BaronetDate: 1899
Books
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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
Books
Embalming and cremation in Judaism / by Fred Rosner.
Fred RosnerDate: 1985
Books
From dust to ashes : cremation and the British way of death / Peter C. Jupp.
Peter C. JuppDate: 2006
Pictures
A burning ghat in Calcutta: a family preparing a body for cremation on a pile of logs.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 549142i
Part 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: 664506i
Books
Im Jenseits der Menschlichkeit : ein Gerichtsmediziner in Auschwitz / Miklós Nyiszli ; hrsg. von Friedrich Herber ; Bearbeitung der 2. Aufl. Andreas Kilian und Friedrich Herber.
Nyiszli, Miklós. Dr. Mengele boncolóorvosa voltam az auschwitzi krematóriumban. GermanDate: 2005
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Changing ways of death in twentieth-century Australia : war, medicine and the funeral business / Pat Jalland.
Pat JallandDate: 2006
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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.
Agostinho José de Sousa LimaDate: 1883
Student dissertations
Cremation, an incentive to crime : to bury or to burn? A controversial debate (1832-1920) / Joanne Paula Cryer.
Cryer, Joanne Paula.Date: 2003
Books
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Cremation of the dead : its history and bearings upon public health / by William Eassie ; with illustrations.
William EassieDate: 1875
Pictures
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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
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The law of burial, cremation and exhumation / by M.R. Russell Davies ; with a foreword by Sir John Cameron.
Russell Davies, M. R. (Maurice Robert)Date: 1965

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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.

Storia documentata della cremazione i popoli antichi ed i moderni con speciale riferimento alla igiene.

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.

M0011786: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a cinerary urn and remains of charred bones found in Seamill, Ayreshire, Scotland from a publication

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.

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.

Earth-burial and cremation : the history of earth-burial with its attendant evils, and the advantages offered by cremation.

Embalming and cremation in Judaism / by Fred Rosner.

From dust to ashes : cremation and the British way of death / Peter C. Jupp.

A burning ghat in Calcutta: a family preparing a body for cremation on a pile of logs.

Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.

Im Jenseits der Menschlichkeit : ein Gerichtsmediziner in Auschwitz / Miklós Nyiszli ; hrsg. von Friedrich Herber ; Bearbeitung der 2. Aufl. Andreas Kilian und Friedrich Herber.

Changing ways of death in twentieth-century Australia : war, medicine and the funeral business / Pat Jalland.

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.

Estudo sobre a cremação dos cadaveres / pelo Dr. Agostinho José de Souza Lima.

Cremation, an incentive to crime : to bury or to burn? A controversial debate (1832-1920) / Joanne Paula Cryer.

Cremation of the dead : its history and bearings upon public health / by William Eassie ; with illustrations.

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

Bombay (Mumbai): a body burning on a funeral pyre. Photograph.

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.

The law of burial, cremation and exhumation / by M.R. Russell Davies ; with a foreword by Sir John Cameron.