(Источник: Matthew R. Grenfell and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010) Название изменено сотрудниками библиотеки.

Many families followed Victorian mourning customs in the mid-1800s. Mourning periods varied based on one's relation to the deceased. While these periods were characterized mainly by mourning garb, photographs and jewelry, like this locket, also served as mementos of the deceased. (Source: Matthew R. Gross and Elizabeth T. Lewin, 2010)

Black locket case shows cross and fern motif.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).

Exhibited: "The Last Full Measure : Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.
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