Craig Funeral Home-Branded Mirror
Utilitarian Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.34
Description
A decorative mirror backed with cut-out images of two fishers in a canoe, a pine treeline, and the fishers' foregrounded catch: a minnow being reeled in. Between the images of fish and canoe, another cutaway reveals an inset advertisement. It reads, "Courtesy of Alfred Craig and the Funeral Home, Old Town, Maine." Mr. Craig was born in Old Town, graduated 1936 from the New England School of Embalming in Boston, MA, and owned and operated Craig Funeral Home until 1965. This mirror advertisement is estimated to be from the 1950s or 60s, though its exact date of creation is unclear.