Historical Collections Exhibit May 24, 2009

This exhibit features a re-created 1920s "operating" or embalming room, American home funeral setting, circa. 1870, horse-drawn hearses, embalming equipment, caskets, portable funeral equipment chapel equipment and furnishings, reproduction of Abraham Lincoln's coffin, Lincoln's railroad coach, model of the Lincoln's tomb, mourning clothing, jewelry, mourning Badges, books, trade catalogues and publications.