Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

Showing posts with label death mask. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death mask. Show all posts
Friday, January 20, 2012

Burke & Hare

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On January 28th, for the 1st time in its 127-year history, the Anatomy Museum at the University of Edinburgh will open its doors to the pu...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Death masks

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Making a plaster death mask, New York, c. 1908. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress . A plaster cast of the face and hands ...
Sunday, October 5, 2008

Samuel Pickering

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My favorite professor while at the University of Connecticut was Samuel Pickering , who still teaches in the English Department. He is a pr...
Saturday, October 4, 2008

Anthropodermic binding

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William Corder (1803-1828) was convicted and executed for Suffolk, England's infamous Murder in the Red Barn . The judge passed sentence...
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Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.
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