Where does rhe word "Hease" originate?
French word: Herse
Latin word:
Hirpex meaning rake or harrow.
The first hearse was a stationary framework to hold...
Lighted tapers and decorations
The civil war created a stable sideline business for...
Carriage manufacturers.
Undertakers were replacing their hearses in a ......... cycle in order to keep up with fashion trends
15 year
Who exhibited a funeral car at the NOLA cotton expo in 1884?
James Cunningham, Son & Co.
Who created the 1889 eight poster oval decked funeral car featuring a bell for a death knell?
Hudson Samson
Who created the most elaborate and outstanding heads of the 19th centigrade that was exhibited at the Chicagos World Fair 1893
Crane and Breed
Who was the funeral trolley invented by?
Street Railway Company of Atchinson, Kansas
Where did the funeral trolley operate to?
Mt. Vernon Cemetery
The funeral trolley was designed for..
Casket egress (escapes)
In ______ Most major cities put funeral trolleys to use and lasted until ______
1890s, 1920s.
The first patents for hearses were granted to______ in 1908
Fred Hulberg
________ marketed the first gas powered hearse in_______
crane and breed; 1909
Crane and Breed added _____ to their product line.
Ambulances
Post WWI saw the intro of _______ hearses
Limo
The ________ from ______ contained many skilled Craftsman
exodus from England
_______________ in the colonies created a desire for coffins
prosperity
Colonists did not ____________ their caskets
import or stock pile
___________ caskets for the rich
hard polished or stained
_________ caskets for the poor
Pine painted lamp black and glue
The emergence of __________ ___________ who supplied goods to undertakers to people dealing with public
Furnishing undertakers
John Dillion had one of the fist __________ in the US
coffin warehouses
Design ideas being introduced resulted in better:
1.
2.
3.
4.
1. Utility
2. Reflection of Status
3. Protection
4. Appearance
Utility of Casket creates a better _________, more ________, and more __________
use of casket, profitable, beneficial
Reflection of Status created caskets with _____, _____, and _______
more expensive material, adornments, better craftsmanship
Protection created from the new ideas of caskets protected against ____ and during _____
grave robbers, ship outs
Appearance of the new ideas for caskets moved from ___- to ____-
gloom to beauty
1860 Patents for caskets included:
1.
2.
3.
4.
1. Iron
2. cement
3. Marble
4. Potters Clay
Fisk Metallic Coffin:
return to ______ shape
intro to _____ casket
claimed to be light and stop _______
adapted a ____ process
anthropoidal shape
airtight
decomp
manufacturing
What casket helped make embalming popular?
Fisk Metallic
Ogee Design" casket in _____ (year)
______ (shape) sided casket
reduces excess ____ and _____
characterized by ____ shape curvature
1859
Square
space and weight
"s
First use of the word casket was in ____ in the year _____
Boston
1849
The modern rectangular design of the casket was introduced in _____
1860
Cloth Burial Caskets
1. Created by?
2. Constructed out of?
3. Covered with?
4. "Style E State Casket for ______ helped acceptance
Samuel Stein
Wood
Cloth
US Grant
name of the cloth covered casket designed for US Grant
Style E State Casket