In a small room, an unoccupied wooden coffin rests in the center. In another, a buttoned-up black wedding dress is paired with a dark, lace mourning veil. On a table lays wreaths of hair and lit ...

From the archives of London’s V&A Museum, a selection of items that were used by Victorian-era mourners to remember and pa ...

BURLINGTON — Steve Person walked into a room full of coffins at the Burlington Public Library, wearing traditional Victorian-era garb — a black top hat, black neck-tie and black suit. He wore all ...

Overland Trail Museum’s History Café took a dark turn this month, just in time for Halloween, with a focus on “Victorian Mourning and Spiritualism.” The Victorian era, which stretched from 1833 until ...

Under the shade of funeral canopies at historic Elmwood Cemetery, about 20 people sat down to a lunch of comfort food: ham rolls, sliced bread and butter pickles, soft cookies and iced tea. If it ...

People often get flummoxed around death. Some get teary, others emotionally distant from the inevitable. An exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Death Becomes Her: A Century of ...

LEWISBURG — The Slifer House Museum’s latest exhibit, titled “Gone But Not Forgotten: Death and Mourning in Victorian America,” opened Saturday and will run through the end of October. The exhibit ...

Courtesy photo Gretchen and James Kennedy reenact a Civil War funeral for David Kennedy which will be displayed at their educational event on Oct. 30 at the Juniata Civic Association. The Juniata ...

More than seven years ago, a Victorian doctor embarked on what has become a quest to correct a small administrative quirk that has made the state’s death certificates unreliable.

A woman who moved into a converted Victorian home discovered it had more than creaky floorboards. The anonymous homeowner said her husband found what they believe is a death mask, a Victorian-era ...