In Memoriam | Funeral Booklet for Dr. Amos Howe Johnson | Salem, MA1896 funerals booklet for prominent Victorian doctor Amos Howe Johnson, a former pastor who also served on the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He went to Harvard Medical School later in life and set up his own practice in Salem, MA. He spent many years at Salem Hospital and was on the board of the notorious Danvers State Hospital. This funeral booklet is bound in unusual black wrappers embossed to look like crocodile skin. Bears stamps from

The spooky graphics will delight any collector of Halloween antiques or fans of all things witchy: A wizard

Somber and beautiful black cotton antique bonnet

for a woman who died in 1913

where it usually denotes the death of a child

The official title on the back is “A Sleeping Love” but someone scrawled in pencil above it

this vintage medievalcore pendant reminds me of something the elves might wear in Lord of the Rings

Evocative of the Japanese prints and Symbolist art that were popular at the time

and the dramatic

usually in the form of a square

Green paper interior

which is great

The corners of the board were not perfectly square