[Rarebooks] FS: 1876 LeMoyne Crematorium Washington Pennsylvania Photographic Card
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1876 LeMoyne Crematorium Washington Pennsylvania Photographic Trade Card
A handsome card issued by Francis LeMoyne for his crematorium, the first
in the United States. LeMoyne, a physician who believed that buried
bodies could corrupt the local water supplies, built his crematorium on
his own land, upon a hill in Washington, Pennsylvania, a spot known
locally as “Gallows Hill”. The first cremation was performed on December
6, 1876 and LeMoyne himself was cremated there in 1879. The crematory
was closed in 1901. This card illustrates the reception room and the
crematory furnace and retort, with smaller view of the countryside and a
portrait of Dr. LeMoyne. With the stamp of S.G. Rogers, Photographer,
Washington, Pa.” on the back.
6.5”x4.25”. Minor wear, some soil. [44632] $450
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