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Funerals and funeral directors in the United States ; a sociological analysis.
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- [New York], [1954], [©1954]
- 1954-1954
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text FC54- 8613 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 378.7CWO B684 Off-site The truth about funerals / Donald Flynn.
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- Burlington, Ont. : Funeral Consultants International, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 97-709 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Presidential state funerals : past practices and security considerations / Jacob R. Straus, Shawn Reese, Maria Kreiser.
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, 2018-
- 2018-present
- 1 Resource
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo140885Africentric funerals and burials : a guide / Kwabena F. Ashanti.
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- Durham, NC : Tone Books, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 02-1256 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, K.G., O.M., C.H. [sound recording].
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- New York, N.Y. : United Artists, p1965.
- 1965
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 46232 [Disc] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Funerals, a consumer guide.
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- [Washington, D.C.?] : Federal Trade Commission, [2000]
- 2000
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS5943Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text FT 1.8/2:C 76 Off-site Military funeral honors.
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- Washington, DC : Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of Public Affairs, Media Relations, [2004]
- 2004
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS49379The American funeral; a study in guilt, extravagance, and sublimity. Introd. by Harry A. Overstreet.
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- Washington, Public Affairs Press [1959]
- 1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E-10 8883 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The last salute: civil and military funerals, 1921-1969, by B. C. Mossman and M. W. Stark.
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- Washington, Dept. of the Army; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1971 [i.e. 1972]
- 1972
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GT3203.M67 Off-site The last salute: civil and military funerals, 1921-1969, by B. C. Mossman and M. W. Stark.
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- Washington, Dept. of the Army; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1971 [i.e. 1972]
- 1972
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 74-1059 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Round-trip to deadsville : a year in the funeral underground / Tim Matson.
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- White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., ©2000.
- 2000
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GT3203 .M34 2000 Off-site Shopping for funeral services.
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Federal Trade Commission, 2013.
- 2013
- 1 Resource
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo52591Caretaker of the dead : the American funeral director / by Vanderlyn R. Pine.
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- New York : Irvington Publishers : distributed by Halsted Press, [1975]
- 1975
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GT3203 .P56 Off-site Horse-drawn funeral vehicles : 19th century funerals / editor, Michael P. D'Amato.
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- Bird-in-Hand, Pa. : Carriage Museum of America, 2004 + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.)
- 2004
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 09-97 Offsite Round-trip to deadsville : a year in the funeral underground / Tim Matson.
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- 2000
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GT3203.M34 2000 Off-site Round-trip to deadsville : a year in the funeral underground / Tim Matson.
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- White River Junction, Vt. ; Totnes, England : Chelsea Green Pub., c2000.
- 2000
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 00-16749 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The last salute : civil and military funerals, 1921-1969 / by B.C. Mossman and M.W. Stark.
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- Washington, D.C. : Department of the Army, 1991.
- 1991-1971
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo110998Funeral customs including inscriptions from two hundred and twenty-five funeral rings. By George R. Curwen.
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- Salem, Mass., The Salem Press Pub. and Prtg. Co., 1893.
- 1893
The American funeral; a study in guilt, extravagance, and sublimity. Introd. by Harry A. Overstreet.
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- 1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HE55 B787 Off-site Military funeral honors for veterans / Scott D. Szymendera.
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, [2018?]-
- 2018-present
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo125986Funeral festivals in America : rituals for the living / Jacqueline S. Thursby.
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- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.
- 2006
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005022925.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 06-2219 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Funeral festivals in America [electronic resource] : rituals for the living / Jacqueline S. Thursby.
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- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
- 2009-2006
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The good funeral : death, grief, and the community of care / Thomas G. Long, Thomas Lynch.
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- Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, [2013]
- 2013
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GT3203 .L66 2013 Off-site A History of the proceedings in the city of New Orleans, on the occasion of the funeral ceremonies in honor of James Abram Garfield, late President of the United States which took place on Monday, September 26th, 1881 [microform] / compiled and published under the authority of the General Committee of Arrangements--Hon. Jos. A. Shakspeare, Mayor of the City of New Orleans, Chairman.
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- New Orleans : A.W. Hyatt, 1881.
- 1984
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MICROFILM 1894 Off-site A History of the proceedings in the city of New Orleans, on the occasion of the funeral ceremonies in honor of James Abram Garfield, late President of the United States which took place on Monday, September 26th, 1881 [microform] / compiled and published under the authority of the General Committee of Arrangements--Hon. Jos. A. Shakspeare, Mayor of the City of New Orleans, Chairman.
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- New Orleans : A.W. Hyatt, 1881.
- 1984
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MICROFILM 1894 Off-site The high cost of dying : a guide to funeral planning / Gregory W. Young.
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- Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1994.
- 1994
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 94-7855 --- Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The last salute: civil and military funerals, 1921-1969, by B. C. Mossman and M. W. Stark.
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- Washington, Dept. of the Army; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1971 [i.e. 1972]
- 1972
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text US 10055.46 Off-site A Tribute to a soldier : United States Army Chaplains, Arlington National Cemetery.
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- [Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. Army, Military District of Washington, [1988?]
- 1988
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D 101.2:So 4/4 Off-site Funerals, consumers' last rights : the Consumers Union report on conventional funerals and burial ... and some alternatives, including cremation, direct cremation, direct burial, and body donation / by the editors of Consumer Reports.
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- Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Consumers Union, c1977.
- 1977
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 79-551 Offsite Report of the presiding officer on proposed trade regulation rule concerning funeral industry practices : [16 C.F.R. part 453], United States of America before Federal Trade Commission / Jack E. Kahn, presiding officer.
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- [Washington] : Federal Trade Commission, 1977.
- 1977
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text FT 1.2:F 96/4 Off-site Final placement : a guide to deaths, funerals, and burials of notable Americans / Robert B. Dickerson, Jr.
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- Algonac, Mich. : Reference Publications, Inc., 1982.
- 1982
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text CT215 .D46 1982 Off-site Final placement : a guide to the deaths, funerals, and burials of notable Americans / Robert B. Dickerson, Jr.
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- Algonac, Mich. : Reference Publications, Inc., 1982.
- 1982
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 85-1145 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
The White House in mourning : deaths and funerals of presidents in office / Martin S. Nowak.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co, c2010.
- 2010
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text IBM 13-944 Schwarzman Building M2 - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Funerales, una guía para el consumidor = Funerals, a consumer guide.
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- [Washington, D.C.] : [Federal Trade Commission], [2007?]
- 2007
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS104924The American Funeral Director archives. Volume I (1917-1969) : the editorials / Jen Kiernan, editor.
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- Wall, NJ : Kates-Boylston Publications, [2009?]
- 2009
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HD9999.U53 U533 2009 Off-site Paying final respects : your rights when buying funeral goods & services.
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Consumer and Business Education, [2007]
- 2007
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS104925Paying final respects : your rights when buying funeral goods & services.
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Federal Trade Commission, [2013]
- 2013
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https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo52588Funeral service : a bibliography of literature on its past, present, and future, the various means of disposition, and memorialization / by Barbara K. Harran and David F. Harrah.
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- Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1976.
- 1976
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLD 77-1975 Offsite To serve the living : funeral directors and the African American way of death / Suzanne E. Smith.
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
- 2010
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 10-810 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Spectacle of grief [electronic resource] : public funerals and memory in the Civil War era / Sarah J. Purcell.
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- 2022
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The White House in mourning : deaths and funerals of presidents in office / Martin S. Nowak.
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co, c2010.
- 2010
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E176.1 .N78 2010 Off-site Death in America / Philippe Ariès ... [et al.] ; edited, with an introd. by David E. Stannard.
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- [Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977, c1974.
- 1977-1974
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 85-3991 Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person.
Robert F. Kennedy funeral train : the people's view / Rein Jelle Terpstra.
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- [Amsterdam] : Fw:Books, [2018]
- 2018-2018
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MEMZ+ (Terpstra) 21-2579 Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Funeral service : a bibliography of literature on its past, present, and future, the various means of disposition, and memorialization / by Barbara K. Harrah and David F. Harrah.
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- 1976
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Z5994.H3 Off-site Death in early America : the history and folklore of customs and superstitions of early medicine, funerals, burials, and mourning / by Margaret M. Coffin. 1st ed.
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- Nashville : Nelson, c1976.
- 1976
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAER 77-2121 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Order of arrangement for obsequies at Washington City of William McKinley, late President of U.S. [microform]
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- Washington, D.C. : [s.n., 1901].
- 1901
Is the cemetery dead? / David Charles Sloane.
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- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- 2018-2018
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 18-8992 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Funerary art / [Larry Freeman].
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- Watkins Glen, N.Y. : American Life Foundation : Century House [distributor], [1970], ©1970.
- 1970-1970
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text AA6150 F87 Off-site Honoring veterans : a guide to military services
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- Wall, N.J. : Kates-Boylston Publications, [2004?]
- 2004
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Off-site Death in America / Philippe Ariès ... [et al.] ; edited, with an introd. by David E. Stannard.
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- [Philadelphia] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1975, c1974.
- 1975-1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GT3203 .D4 1975 Off-site
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