Floral arrangements for caskets, a sample catalog of 18 macabre silver gelatin photographs

by Clyde Sunderland, Photographer

$1,200 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Oakland: Clyde Sunderland Studios, ca. 1930 . What is that? That's the question the viewer is most likely to have upon encountering these early 20th century photos of odd shapes made of flowers.Their macabre quality is unmistakable, even if one doesn't know their context.An unusual oblong 11 x18 sample catalog of floral arrangements for caskets, which likely haunted the office of a funeral parlor director,

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