GLASS FRAGMENT FROM CASKET

Object/Artifact

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Homestead Museum

Name/Title

GLASS FRAGMENT FROM CASKET

Entry/Object ID

98.20.2.5

Description

A piece of glass believed to be from a viewing plate of a casket, ca. 1870. The fragment is clear glass and 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 scratches and other surface marks and is in poor condition.

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Coffins

Search Terms

Three-dimensional, Glass, Tombs, Cemeteries--City of Industry (Calif.), City of Industry (Calif.)--Homestead Museum--El Campo Santo

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Glass