I: Historical background -- Memento Mori: death in the Middle Ages -- La Mort de Toi: death of "the other" in the Age of Enlightenment -- The finger of the Lord hath done it: death in Colonial America -- Beautiful in the last repose: death in the Victorian Age -- Sisters in mourning: Mary Todd Lincoln and Queen Victoria -- Buried at The side of the road: death in Westering America -- Johnny has gone for a soldier: death in Civil War America -- That little company of angels: deaths of children in the nineteenth century -- II: Memorial art and artifacts -- Mourning clothing and ritual -- Mourning jewelry -- Stuart mourning jewelry -- Georgian mourning -- Victorian mourning jewelry -- Jewelry design -- Memorial portraiture: mortuary and posthumous paintings -- Memorial photography -- Other memorial images -- Framed memorials -- Hair-work memorials -- Framed memorials of other materials -- Painted memorials -- Embroidered memorials -- Berlin and punched paper memorials -- Lithographs -- Tokens of remembrance -- Pottery and glass -- Unique memorial objects and artifacts -- Paper ephemera -- Mourning art among minorities -- The death of mourning.