Documenting a burial prior to exhumation

ID: 6584 ~ Source: Photograph courtesy of Earth Search, Inc.
~ Date: 2016

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2

Person, whose face is not shown, is photographed in a pit, is holding a tape measure up and down next to a yellow tape measure along the side of a wooden coffin lid.

An archaeologist measures the length and depth of a coffin prior to exhumation.

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2

By By Elizabeth Williams and Ethan Ranck, edited by D. Ryan Gray, Charlotte Willcox, and Elizabeth Williams

By some estimates, nearly 50,000 burials lie beneath Canal Boulevard, originally Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2. Almost forgotten since Canal Boulevard's addition to the city's roadways in 1937, road…