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@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 1:33 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead It's #Wearsomethinggaudyday. But how is that possible in mourning? Half-mourning offered the scope for wearing very vivid violets.
Half-mourning dress, c. 1895
Half-mourning bonnet w/ ruche, c. 1865
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
collections.mcq.org/objets/46655

Photograph of dress on mannequin: bright violet satin trimmed with black velvet and an asymmetrical bodice closure in a strip of black and white embroidery. The collar is also stripes of white and black. Immense gigot sleeves of black velvet trimmed with violet satin. Photograph of a side view of a bonnet with a snood-like body. The body and edge of the bonnet are trimmed with narrow rouleaux in the same bright violet color. There are long hanging ties and the bonnet has a narrow white ruffle edging the opening.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 1:08 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead A young girl's mourning dress, c. 1855-1865--the sleeve lace and the blue trim were added at a later date. There are some raw edges suggesting that it was hastily sewn, a not uncommon occurrence for mourning garments. Australian Dress Register (link no longer works.)

Child's black dress with a full skirt, ruffle at the hem, shiny black trim down the front in a "V". The sleeves are split and trimmed with white lace, black and blue ribbons. The bateau neck is trimmed with white lace.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 12:21 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Alden Tissot and his mother-in-law Samantha Bly. He is wearing a mourning band for his wife who died 16 October 1918 in Cleveland, Ohio from the Spanish Influenza. Her mother appears to be wearing a jet necklace.
www.floridamemory.com/items/show/9...

Black and white photograph of an elderly woman in a long white dress sitting on a porch with a man in a First World War soldier's uniform, with hat and puttees. He has a black mourning band around his left arm. There is a small flag with a star on the wall of the porch, next to a rocking chair, indicating that a relative is in the military service.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:37 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead A Faith, Hope, and Charity funeral flower arrangement, 1905.
A wire frame used to make a different style of Faith, Hope, and Charity floral tribute.

Black and white photograph of a funeral flower arrangement showing a cross with round arms and head covered in small white flowers and other vines and foliage; a fouled anchor with some roses inserted into a darker background and a dark heart trimmed with baby's breath and other foliage. A metal wire frame with a circular/conical base holding wire outlines of an anchor with a cross top and a heart superimposed on it.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:26 PM

#TheVIctorianBookoftheDead An ivory beaded immortelle representing Faith, Hope, and Charity, with a bisque figure of a cherub or the Christ Child (not sure if there are blue wings behind the figure).
Pinterest, no other attribution

Displayed against a rough board background painted green is a beaded immortelle made of ivory beadwork showing an anchor, a cross, a heart, and foliage, representing Faith, Hope and Charity. There is a bisque figure of a child in a pink loincloth with upraised arms. There may be blue wings behind the figure. The text on the photo reads MISCOMMARKRANS, Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 12:17 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Embossed and die-cut memorial card showing a draped urn, weeping willows and a weeping mourner, for Mrs. Mary Ann Melvin who died 15 October 1878, aged 27. The card helpfully gives the cemetery, grave number, and undertaker.
www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/...

Ivory memorial card bordered in black embossed with a draped urn at the top of a tomb panel, weeping willows, and a weeping mourner. The text reads: In Affectionate Remembrance of the late Mrs. Mary Ann Melvin, Who Died October 15th, 1878, Aged 27 Years. Buried at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery In Grave No. 576C. D. Cooksey, 52 Amwell Street, E.C.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 1:03 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Mourning coat (2nd mourning) by Jean-Philippe Worth, 1907 in black bengaline encrusted with black lace applique and soft frills of chiffon around neck and wrist.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Long black trapezoidal coat on a mannequin with bands of lace on the sleeve and bodice. Side/rear view of a long black full coat on a mannequin with bands of lace on the sleeve and shoulders. A long full black coat on a mannequin, the sleeves and neck frilled with chiffon. Lace is visible on the sleeves, shoulders, and bodice.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 12:56 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Died 14 October 1866, Dick, Charles Dickens's pet canary. It is now in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, along with the preserved body of "Grip" the Dickens family pet raven.

Photograph of a tombstone with pointed top reading This is the Grave of DICK The Best of Birds Born at Broadstairs, Mids’ 1851 Died at Gads Hill Place 14 Oct 1866
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 12:48 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Photograph showing a "Sad Hour" clock floral arrangement and other floral tributes surrounding the coffin of Mrs Sallie Ward York, who died 6:45 pm 14 October 1907. The hands of the clock are set to the time of death.

Photograph of a closed coffin with a pleated drape, surrounded by floral arrangements including a floral clock, its hands set to 6:45, a broken pillar and wreaths.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 12:49 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead 1854 mourning fashion plate showing a seated woman in full, albeit fashionable, mourning complete with black ruched bonnet and veil and a standing sympathizing friend in a grey half-mourning ensemble. Toilettes de deuil & demi deuil.
id.rijksmuseum.nl/200525212

A colored fashion plate showing a seated woman on a red sofa wearing a tiered black mourning dress, bonnet, and veil. She holds a handkerchief in a gloved hand. Another woman, wearing a tiered grey dress with black embroidery and a blue-grey bonnet, and also holding a handkerchief, stands beside the deep mourner. Curtains and pictures form the background.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 12:39 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Embossed mourning card showing a tomb with a draped urn, commemorating George Roake, who departed this life April 20th, 1873, aged 22 years.

Mourning card with a tombstone-shaped area of black framing a white embossed tomb topped with a draped urn. The text reads: In Affectionate Remembrance of George Roake, Who departed this life April 20th, 1873, aged 22 years. Upon the bed of languishing The promise was fulfilled; Strength to his feeble frame was given, And all his fears were stilled. He softly breathed his life away, And in its latest sigh, Showed, resting on a Saviour’s love, How sweet it was to die. THY WILL BE DONE.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 13, 2026, 11:39 AM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Reaction, after Charles Samuel Keene, 1878.
Shortsighted Old Lady. "Hi! Omibus! Hi!"
Hearse-Driver (unbending). "All right, Mum! Most 'appy, Mum! Di-rectly, Mum!"
collections.ashmolean.org/object/1139792

Black and white drawing of an older lady in bonnet and shawl waving her umbrella at what she thinks is an omnibus, but is a hearse drawn by two horses, driven by a jaunty undertaker in hat and weed and boots, who raises his whip to reply to her.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:19 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mortsafe tackle to hoist the heavy iron parish mortsafe into place, Invererie, Aberdeenshire and a surviving mortsafe, Durris, Aberdeenshire, used as a drinking trough for cattle.
wellcomecollection.org/works/yf4bqyhe
wellcomecollection.org/works/emceaak3

Black and white photograph of a tripod of logs and iron tackle with hooks, ropes, and pulleys, meant for raising iron mortsafes: iron coffins meant to protect the dead from bodysnatchers. Three cottages stand in the background, across an open field. Black and white photograph of a coffin-shaped iron mortsafe halfway buried under a stacked stone wall among long grass.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:01 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning bonnet and long crape [the most common 19th c spelling for the mourning fabric] veil, c. 1880-89. A long veil was normally worn only by widows in the deepest mourning. A shorter veil might be adopted after perhaps 6 months.
ksum.catalogaccess.com/objects/1809...

Black crape-covered mourning bonnet with long black ribbon ties and a very long crape veil, seen in profile.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:44 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #NationalMotorcycleRideDay
A floral motorcycle sent by the Atlanta [Georgia] Motorcycle Club to the funeral of young Henry Hammond Springs, who died in a motorcycle race 30 May 1922.

A photograph of a motorcycle made of flowers--a funeral tribute. The banner indicates it is from the Atlanta [Georgia] Motorcycle Club, 1922.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:41 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead #NationalMotorcycleRideDay
Motorcycle Riders Diverted by Death, E. Kneiss, 1929.
An alert reader noted that the marque (seen on the tank) is "MORS."
wellcomecollection.org/works/w2yfp2wg

Drawing of a man and a woman riding on a motorcycle on a mountain road. They wear clothing of the 1920s. A skeletal Death figure holding a watch, grabs one handlebar to divert the motorcycle into the valley below.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:37 PM

#31DaysofGraves Day 10: Missing.
Empty bed tombstone for Thomas Allen Neil, born on Christmas, 1851 and died 17 August 1852, aged 7 months. Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/213...
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

A carved stone tombstone showing a small, empty bed with the covers slightly pulled back. It stands on a rectangular plinth and the name "Tommy" can be seen carved in one corner. Another tombstone with raised lettering sits beside it.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:47 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Collection of jet mourning jewellery worn by Mrs Craig of Edinburgh. The largest necklace, of oblong jet links, suspends an articulated jet anchor, symbolising hope.
www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-...

Photograph of a collection of jet mourning jewellery. There is a comb at the lower left with a coronet-like collection of jet beads at the top. In the center is a necklace of oblong links, holding an anchor pendant. To the upper right is a necklace of multiple jet navette elements, tied with a black ribbon. In the lower right are two bracelets with the central element in the form of a double open knot and eight graded connecting sections forming the wrist band.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:38 PM

#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Widow snark postcard, c. 1910 originally trimmed with a flower and feathers. The Merry Widow hat [made by Lucile for Lehár’s operetta, Die lustige Witwe, and an immediate fashion craze] was also the subject of satire because of its large size and elaborate trimmings.

Black and white postcard showing a border of dancing couples and individual ladies dressed in the style of 1907-1912. In the center is a large, flat-crowned, wide-brimmed hat in glossy black. A motto in Gothic letters, below the hat, reads The hat of the Merry Widow / Is paid for by the married kiddo.
@chriswoodyard.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 1:16 PM

#31DaysofGraves #9 Lettering The text seems to melt into the lichened log background in this tombstone for "Mother" Russell [I haven't found her first name in the records] at Ferncliff Cemetery, Springfield, Ohio.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Closeup of a carved stone tombstone with the word "Mother" and a rope hung over a protruding stump of a cut-off branch. Closeup of a carved stone tombstone with the word "Mother" at the top and a banner hung by a rope with tassels over a protruding stump of a cut-off branch that reads 1814-1897 aged 83. Under the banner is the word Russell and several plantain leaves.