A piece of glass believed to be from a viewing plate of a casket, ca. 1870. The fragment is clear glass and has a section of dirt on it containing small fragments of wood, probably from the coffin that this glass piece was with. The object was found in the digging of the crypt for Nellie D. Temple, April 1998 in the fenced burial plot in El Campo Santo cemetery. The glass, in addition to being broken, has cracks, scratches and other surface marks and is in poor condition.
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Three-dimensional, Glass, Tombs, Cemeteries--City of Industry (Calif.), City of Industry (Calif.)--Homestead Museum--El Campo Santo
