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This is an advertisement in the original frame from the 1920's for a cement burial vault. My grandfather bought an old building that was once a funeral home. It had not been a funeral home since the 1940's. I found this (and one other) in the attic of that building. I also found class jars of embalming cream, cosmetics and some very creepy undertaker magazines all from the same time period. The sign reads: The Waterproof Cement burial Vault Company Terre Haute, Indiana.
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