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Vintage illustrations of the Hearse 1900s #204716834
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Harmsworth`s Universal Encyclopaedia 1920s - Social History. Illustrations showing the changes through the eras of the Hearse. Open vehicle with glass panels driven by horses and a type of motor hearse. A hearse is a large vehicle, especially an automobile, used to carry the dead body of a person in a coffin/casket at a funeral, wake, or memorial service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to very formal heavily decorated vehicles. The name is derived, through the French herse, from the Latin herpex, which means a harrow. The funeral hearse was originally a wooden or metal framework, which stood over the bier or coffin and supported the pall.
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