Death Rites and Victorian Mourning Culture Specialty Tour

33 South Street,Auburn NY 13021

12 October, 2022

Description

Learn about the bygone customs and symbols of death used by Victorian-era Americans, including the Seward family. With war, rampant disease, and high infant mortality rates, death was not an unusual visitor to the average 1800s household. To handle this constant trauma, Victorians developed ways of coping with death that we may find strange today.