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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
    Copyright
    Public Domain: image prior to 1923
    Attribution/Credit

    Jacob Riis, City Museum of New York