The Social History of Death

Thursday, 4 September 2014

Unusual causes of death - #70 (The Human Bomb)

 
Blown up during a performance

 
 
The Hickman Courier - July 11 1902, page 5

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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Unusual causes of death - #69 (Crushed in a tunnel)

 
Crushed in a tunnel
 
 
The Hartford Republican - March 14, 1902, page 3

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Monday, 1 September 2014

Unusual causes of death - #68 (A fall from a hospital roof)

 
A fall from a hospital roof

 
 
Kentucky Irish American - April 12 1902, page 1

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A new book from the owners of probably the largest archive of cemetery related photographs in the world!

Available now - on both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk

The authors have viewed millions of gravestones, and are offering readers a selection of the rare and unusual gravestones that they have seen, with full-colour illustrations. Each category of type of gravestone, age of person, cause of death, rare names, and errors found on gravestones are given a points score to indicate rarity.


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