A vintage trade catalog illustrates horse-drawn hearses from long ago, providing a glimpse at funeral processions of the past Alexia MacClain The Trade Literature Collection gives us a small ...

Early horse-drawn hearses were carriages that often featured fully functional landau bars. Before World War II, American automobile hearses borrowed the landau bar flourish as an homage and an ...

The beautful hearse was built about 1860 by John Marston of Birmingham. It would have been pulled by two or four black horses wearing plumes attached to their bridles. Their hooves would sometimes ...

beginning with a riderless horse trailing a hearse. Full horse-drawn funerals were expected to return by the fall. But Wormuth said the platoon still needs to purchase 30 additional horses and ...

If you’ve ever been to a funeral (or behind the procession of one on the road), you’ve probably seen a hearse—and perhaps you ...