Bereavement Collection

Embossed Victorian mourning card, Mary Hickman
Embossed Victorian mourning card with a funerary monument. In Memory of Mary, relict of the late Job Hickman, of the Bilston Quarries, she departed this life, December 2nd, 1857, aged 73 years

Embossed Victorian mourning card, James Woodhead
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a woman and a girl grieving at a tomb in a cemetery. In Memory of James Woodhead, who departed this life January 14th, 1855, aged 80 years

Embossed Victorian mourning card, Ann Ferrier
Embossed Victorian mourning card with two angels and a broken column. Sacred to the Memory of Ann Ferrier, who died on the 6th of March, 1875, aged 58 years. Date: 1875

Graveside Grave Death Burial Headstone Woman
graveside, grave, death, burial, headstone, woman, women, child, children, grief, grieving, bereavement, mourning, angels, angel, wings, people, family, hovering, faith, belief, religion, 1850s

Cartoon, The Merry Widows, WW1
Cartoon, The Merry Widows. A reference to the operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar, showing widows of the First World War in a cafe looking anything but merry

Victorian Death Bereavement Mourning White Black
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Victorian mourning card, Edgar George Pottle
Victorian mourning card, In Loving Remembrance of Edgar George Pottle, MRCS LRCP, who died April 9th, 1880, aged 40, interred in the family grave, at Highgate Cemetery

Victorian mourning card, In Memoriam, with envelope
Victorian mourning card, In Memoriam, with a cross and ivy, and accompanying mourning envelope with black edging. Date: circa 1880s

Embossed Victorian mourning card, three daughters
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a grieving woman, an urn above and a church on the right. In Memory of Louisa, fourth daughter of Edward and Louisa Paris, who died January 8th, 1858

Mourning woman with cross and flowers. Date: circa 1880s

The People's Packet of Mourning Stationery
Victorian packet design, The People's Packet of Mourning Stationery, which would contain writing paper and envelopes with black edging. Date: circa 1880s

Embossed Victorian mourning card, In Memoriam, with a woman kneeling in grief -- Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord -- and an architectural border in Egyptian style. Date: circa 1880s

Box of Victorian mourning pins by George Goodman. Date: circa 1880s

Alice, Where Art Thou, Christmas card
Alice, Where Art Thou, comic interpretation of a popular song on a Christmas card, with a frog finding his lost love, who is now an angel frog with wings up in the clouds. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, A good idea, WW1
Cartoon, A good idea. A French soldier says he has asked his father to write to say he is dead: that way, he will be able to get leave of absence from the Front. Date: 1916

George V, Queen Mary and family at funeral service
King George V, Queen Mary and other members of the royal family at a funeral service. Date: 1912

Cartoon, Close Formation, WW1
Cartoon, Close Formation, commenting on harsh German tactics on the battlefield during the First World War. Before the war, Kaiser Wilhelm defended his use of close formation of troops

Tear Bottles 1930s
A young woman creating a tear bottle display, a mourning custom dating from Ancient Rome and Egypt, when mourners would bottle their tears for burial with their loved ones. early 1930s

Dr Syntax lamenting the loss of his wife. Date: 1820

Apparitions: angels & the ghost of a lover comforts woman
The spirit of a dead man, accompanied by two angels, returns to Earth to comfort his surviving lover. Date: circa 1810

Japanese people in mourning dress
A group of Japanese people in mourning dress. Date: 1846

Angel of Death taking dead child
The Angel of Death taking a dead child away from its mother. 1886

A Mothers Dream by A E Emslie. Date: 1891

Sentimental scene -- Kiss Me, Mama. A little girl looks at a lantern slide projection of her departed mother, while her father bows his head in grief. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

WW1 street shrine, London, 1917
A front cover of The Illustrated London News, showing a woman and two small children leaving a floral tribute at a London street shrine, 1917. Date: January 1917

Winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb
The low winter sun highlights a skull & crossbones on a tomb beneath cemetery gates. Kirkcudbright graveyard, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland Date: 2009

Victorian mourning card, In Loving Remembrance, in gothic style text with flowers, a bird, and thick black edging. Date: circa 1880s

French mourning card, Sincere Sympathie, with embossed design and two black tassels. Date: circa 1880s

Victorian mourning card, In Memoriam, in gothic style text. Date: circa 1880s

Victorian mourning card, In Loving Memory, with a lily flower on water. Date: circa 1880s

Victorian Death Bereavement White Black 1890s
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Business card, G W Bulgin, undertaker, London
Business card of G W Bulgin, upholsterer, house and estate agent, decorator and undertaker, of Stanhope Street, Euston Road (office) and William Street, Albany Street (workshops), London

Business card, T Rhys, undertaker, near Swansea, Wales
Business card of T Rhys, builder, undertaker and complete funeral furnisher, of Ynystawe, Clydach, near Swansea, Wales, with an engraving of a horse-drawn hearse. Date: circa 1880s

Mourning card, King George V
Mourning card, In Loving Memory of His Majesty King George V who passed peacefully away January 20th 1936. R.I.P. Date: 1936

Cowper / Westall / Golding
WILLIAM COWPER English poet contemplating his mothers picture: O that those lips had language! Date: 1731 - 1800

Poster, The Artists Dream, Maskelyne & Cooke
Poster for The Artists Dream, one of Maskelyne & Cookes Mysteries, performed on stage. The artist has painted a portrait of his recently deceased wife

Little girl at a New Year party, Soho Fire Station, London
A little girl with Father Christmas (fireman Pester) at a New Year party, Soho Fire Station, London, 2 January 1955. A total of 65 children attended the party

Children at a party, Soho Fire Station, London
Children at a New Year party, Soho Fire Station, London, 2 January 1955. A total of 65 children attended, seen here sitting at tables in the appliance room

Bereavement humour - losing ones wife
Condoling Friend (to recently Bereaved Widower) - " It must be awfully hard to lose ones wife." The Bereaved: " Yes, its almost impossible." !!! Date: circa 1890s

Father and four sons in a graveyard, Mid Wales
A father and his four sons in a graveyard, Mid Wales. From their expressions they appear to be in mourning for a family member, though they are not dressed in black

Grave of a pet dog
The grave and headstone of a pet dog named Dick, who departed this life on 25 January 1907 at the age of eight. He was fed on milk and fish, and was very fat

Russian Pilgrim
A Russian pilgrim : peasants are liable to take off on pilgrimages at any excuse - a celebration, a bereavement, any excuse will do

Grandma Re Grandpa 1911
Grandmother - Poor grandpa has had to go far, far away. Granddaughter - Do you know if he ll be sending me any postcards?

Father / Daughter C1910
A little girl whose mother has died attempts to comfort her father

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