Description: RARE Original Billheads Three pieces Automobile - HEARSE - Funeral Auburn, New York 1923 For offer, a rare collection of of ephemera! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original - NOT a Reproduction - Guaranteed !! This came directly from papers from the Tallman Funeral home in Auburn, NY. It changed ownership after he owned it for many years, and these billheads have the name Lester E Brew on them. Nice graphic of car. Morehouse, retallack & Bastian, taxi service, cadillac limousine, Lewis / Calkins and Newkirk livery service. Lists various charges for funeral services. Interesting and unusual pieces of history. In good to very good condition. A few light wrinkles on one corner, small rips there too, and slight discoloration from age. Fold marks. NOTE: Will be sent folded up as found. Please see photos and scans for all details and condition. If you collect 20th century Americana advertisement ad history, United States mourning, American post mortem, funeral, death or cemetery related. etc. this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Genealogy research importance as well. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 3043 Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States. Located at the north end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in Central New York, the city had a population of 26,866 at the 2020 census.[3] It is the largest city of Cayuga County, the county seat,[4] and the site of the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility, as well as the William H. Seward House Museum and the house of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. A hearse is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a coffin at a funeral, wake, or memorial service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to heavily decorated vehicles. In the funeral trade of some countries hearses are called funeral cars or funeral coaches. HistoryThe name is derived, through the French herse, from the Latin herpex, which means a harrow. The funeral hearse was originally a wooden or metal framework, which stood over the bier or coffin and supported the pall. It was provided with numerous spikes to hold burning candles, and, owing to the resemblance of these spikes to the teeth of a harrow, was called a hearse. Later on, the word was applied, not only to the construction above the coffin, but to any receptacle in which the coffin was placed. Thus[1] from about 1650[2] it came to denote the vehicle on which the dead are carried to the grave.[1] Hearses were originally hand-drawn then horse-drawn after the decoration and weight of the hearse increased. The first electric motorized hearses were introduced to the United States in the early 1900s.[3] Petrol-powered hearses began to be produced from 1907 and, after slow initial uptake due to their high cost, became widely accepted in the 1920s.[3] The vast majority of hearses since then have been based on larger, more powerful car chassis,[4] generally retaining the front end up to and possibly including the front doors but with custom bodywork to the rear to contain the coffin.
Price: 99 USD
Location: Rochester, New York
End Time: 2024-12-05T15:58:11.000Z
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