Potter’s Field Burial Trench
Unidentified or unclaimed bodies are laid side-by-side for burial in a trench in New York City’s Hart Island potter’s field, euphemistically called the City Cemetery, ca. 1890. This image serves as a proxy for the trench burials in the Blockley potter’s field.
ca.
1890
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Attribution/Credit
Jacob Riis, City Museum of New York