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 genealogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Saturday, June 22, 2013

Text message in a bottle

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Matilda "Tillie" Esper (b. 1893) and her friend Selina J. Pramstaller (b. 1898) were enjoying June 30, 1915, at Tashmoo Park, a ...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Tomb of the known soldier

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Last summer, I mentioned the collection of daguerreotypes donated to the Library of Congress by the Liljenquist Family ( on-line catalog ...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Historic family farms

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In a recent article about the sale of the oldest continuously-operated family-owned farm in the U.S. being put up for sale, there was menti...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

A few branches of the Quigley family tree

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My Dad has been visiting for a week and, at my request, brought all his genealogy information, which includes some old photographs. He has f...
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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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