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Japanese funeral customs: after the cremation: three women and a child pick bones from the ashes with chopsticks and place them in an urn. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
Date: 1880Reference: 565939i- Pictures
A corpse laid out on a bamboo stretcher; two men in the background prepare a cremation pyre of logs, during the epidemic of plague in Bombay. Photograph attributed to Captain C. Moss, 1897.
Moss, C., Captain, active approximately 1897.Date: [1897?]Reference: 37584iPart of: Moss, C., Captain, fl. ca. 1897.- Pictures
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A group of men stand around the body of a man laid out on a pyre of logs during a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
Date: 1896Reference: 37093i- Pictures
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A group of men lower the body of a dead man on to a pyre of logs prior to a Hindu cremation ceremony in Bombay at the time of the plague. Photograph, 1896/1897.
Date: 1896Reference: 37105i- Books
Disposal of refuse : report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, upon some new methods of disposing of all kinds of refuse by cremation / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.
Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901.Date: 1881- Books
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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- Books
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Extrait du procès-verbal de la séance de la douzième Assemblée générale de la Société pour la propagation de la crémation.
Société pour la propagation de la crémation.Date: [1893]- Pictures
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: 2913941iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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: 2913942iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Estudo sobre a cremação dos cadaveres / pelo Dr. Agostinho José de Souza Lima.
Lima, Agostinho José de Souza, 1842-1921.Date: 1883- Books
Hygiène, inhumation, crémation ou incinération des corps / par A. Cadet.
Cadet, A.Date: [between 1880 and 1889?]- Books
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Disposal of refuse : report to the Sanitary Committee of the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, upon some new methods of disposing of all kinds of refuse by cremation : together with extracts from the reports of the Sanitary and Streets Committees upon the same subject / by W. Sedgwick Saunders.
Saunders, W. Sedgwick (William Sedgwick), 1824-1901.Date: 1881- Books
Storia documentata della cremazione i popoli antichi ed i moderni con speciale riferimento alla igiene.
Maccone, Luigi.Date: 1932- Books
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Les cimetières et crémation, étude historique et critique / par F. Martin.
Date: 1881- Books
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God's acre beautiful, or, the cemeteries of the future / by W. Robinson.
Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935.Date: 1882- Books
La crémation des morts en France et à l'étranger / par Prosper de Pietra Santa.
Pietra Santa, Prosper de, 1820-1898.Date: 1874- Books
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The diversitie of salts and spirits maintained, or, The imaginary volatility of some salts and non-entity of the alcali before cremation and identity of all alcalies, all volatil salts, and all vinous spirits, by an onely lamp-furnace resolved into real improbability : by way of animadversions upon Dr. D.C. his 3 papers, communicated to the R.S. and insert in the 9. vol. of the P.T. : together with a new system of the order and gradation in the worlds creation, as also scurvie alchymie discovered / by Matt. Mackaile.
Mackaile, Matthew, active 1657-1696Date: 1683- Books
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A dictionary of diet : being a practical treatise on all pabulary and nutritive substances, solid and fluid with their compounds, used as food; including the observations of eminent philosophers, physicians, gastronomers, and other industrious inquirers into the true science of eating, drinking and preserving health, through the medium of well regulated and easily digestible food, founded on the known specific properties of all kinds of human ailment; with the means of prevention and cure of the diseases resulting from a deranged condition of the organs of digestion, etc., etc. / by J.S. Forsyth.
Forsyth, J. S.Date: 1833- Digital Images
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The mahatmya of the fifth adhyaya. The bottom half of the painting depicts Pingala's life as a Brahman, his argument with his wife and his death by poisoning. The upper half illustrates the narrative of their subsequent births as birds: they fight in an ascetic's skull in a cremation ground and are given new divine bodies. In the new form they are taken to the court of Dharmaraja, the judge of the actions of mortals
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The mahatmya of the fifth adhyaya. The bottom half of the painting depicts Pingala's life as a Brahman, his argument with his wife and his death by poisoning. The upper half illustrates the narrative of their subsequent births as birds: they fight in an ascetic's skull in a cremation ground and are given new divine bodies. In the new form they are taken to the court of Dharmaraja, the judge of the actions of mortals
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Death to dust : what happens to dead bodies? / Kenneth V. Iserson.
Iserson, Kenneth V.Date: [1994], ©1994- Books
Praelectiones in Dispensatorium Regium et Electorale Borusso-Brandenburgicum / [Johann Heinrich Schulze].
Schulze, Johann Heinrich, 1687-1744Date: 1753- Books
[Review of: Hygiène publique : la crémation des morts en Italie / par Prosper de Pietra Santa. Paris J.B. Baillière, 1873].
Date: 1874- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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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