Exposed Coffin with a Flower

ID: 6585 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology ~ Date: 1985

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2

A photograph of a hexagonal coffin, emptied and without a lid. A white flower is inside the coffin where the head of a person once was.

The excavation team uncovered this grave and placed a flower within the coffin to honor the dead.

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…