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This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Things Remembered II: An Archaeology of Affective Objects and Other Narratives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the poor and indigent buried at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC), it was the Board of Supervisors of Milwaukee County who, by the late 1800s, contracted local undertakers to supply the MCPFC with burial containers. This practice of contracting for construction of coffins...
Thumb Screws: Decorative Mortuary Hardware Recovered from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Things Remembered II: An Archaeology of Affective Objects and Other Narratives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Coffin hardware recovered from historic cemetery excavations serve as temporal, economic, and social markers. The Milwaukee County Poor Farm cemetery burials were carried out by County officials as part of a county-mandated and county-funded program. While most coffins and coffin hardware...