1930s Undertakers Supply Co Glass Embalming Jar Cleaning and Care Gently wipe

Cleaning and Care Gently wipe with a soft

a popular technique since the 1750s

This piece was most likely a dime store necklace

There are two large hook-and-eye closures at the neck concealed by a removable throat latch that fastens with two black mother of pearl buttons

1930s Undertakers Supply Co Glass Embalming Jar Cleaning and Care Gently wipeIn the mid nineteenth century funeral services started to modernize and become more specialized. The profession of undertaker emerged, bodies were no longer prepared at home but relegated to professional morticians. Nowhere was this more evident than in Chicago. The Chicago Undertaker's association formed in 1868 and later the Illinois School of Embalming. Many other mortuary schools, funeral service training programs and funeral related associations