Hi
 
Here is that list of sources involving coffin viewing windows.
Edward Bell has put out a neat book (an entire book!) on sources on
historic cemeteries, that I highly recommend for those really
interested in historic cemeteries (Of course I couldn't find the
title to that).
 
At Freedman's Cemetery (Dallas TX) I reconstructed 10 different shapes of viewin
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windows.  The shapes were predictably variations on ovals and rectangles.
 Sizes ranged from small face plates to body length windows.  Some coffins even
had 2 windows.  Many windows had holes drilled in them for viewing window cover
latches
and some had cut outs to accommodate the coffin plaque.
 
 
Victoria Owens
Sam Houston National Forest
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Archaeological Services, Inc.
1994    Archaeological Mitigation of the Farewell (Harmony Road) Pioneer
Cemetery, City of Oshawa, Regional Municipality of Durham, Toronto,
Canada.
 
Bell, Edward L.
1990    "The Historical Archaeology of Mortuary Behavior:  Coffin
Hardware from Uxbridge, MA" in Historical Archaeology vol. 24, no. 3.
 
Blakely & Beck
1982    "Bioarchaeology in the Urban Context" (The Oakland Cemetery in
Atlanta, GA) in Archaeology of Urban America:  The Search for Pattern
and Process.  Academic Press.
 
Brauner & Jenkins
   1986         Archaeological Recovery of Historic Burials within the
   Applegate Lake Project Area, Jackson, Co, OR.  Oregon State University.
 
Earls, Amy C. et al.
   n.d.  Investigations of Historic Cemeteries at the O.H. Ivie
   Reservoir, Coleman, Concho and Runnels, Counties, TX.
   Mariah Associates Inc. Report # 403.
 
Elia & Wesolowsky ed.
1991    Archaeological Excavations at the Uxbridge Almshouse  Burial
Ground in Uxbridge MA.  BAR International Series 564.
 
Dickens & Blakely
1978    "Preliminary Report on Archaeological Investigations in Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, GA" in The Conference on Historic Site Archaeology
Papers.  Vol 13.
 
Garrow & Associates
1985    Physical Anthropology and Archaeological Investigations of the
Nancy Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Chamblee, GA
 
Garrow & Associates
1987    The Big Lazer Unmarked Cemetery:  A Multidisciplinary
Investigation.
 
Garrow & Associates
1990    Archaeological Investigations of the Sandy Creek Cemetery, Lot
31, Block "B", Sandy Creek Estates, Clark Co., GA.
 
Garrow, Patrick H.
1987    "A Preliminary Seriation of Coffin Hardware Forms in 19th & 20th
Century, GA."  In Early Georgia vol. 15, no. 1 & 2, Society for
Georgia Archaeology.
 
Habenstein & Lamers
1981    The History of American Funeral Directing.  National Funeral
Directors Association.
 
Lang, Kathryn Ann
1984    Coffins & Caskets:  Their Contribution to the Archaeological
Record.  Un. Of Idaho, Thesis.
 
Lebo, Susan, A.
1988    Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Perspective:  The Tucker and
Sinclair Cemeteries of Delta  Co. TX.  Un. Of North TX.
 
Mayer Heritage Consultants, Inc.
1994    Archaeological Excavation and Analysis of Unmarked Graves Central
King Seniors Complex (former Wesleyan Methodist Church Cemetery) City
of York (Weston), Ontario.
 
McReynols, Mary Jane
1981    Archaeological Investigations at the Laredo Cemetery Site, Webb
Co, TX.  Prewitt & Associates, Inc, Austin, TX.
 
New South Associates
1991    Agrarian Life, Romantic Death:  Archaeological and Historical
Testing and Data Recovery for The I-85 Northern Alternative,
Spartanburg, Co, SC.  New South Associates Technical Report
 #39.
 
Remsberg, Virginia Russell
1992    From Coffin-Making to Undertaking:  The Rise of the Funeral
Directing Industry in the 1880's.  Un. Of Delaware, thesis.
 
Rose, Jerry
1985    Gone to a  Better Land:  A Bio-history of a Rural Black Cemetery
in the Post-Reconstruction South.  AK Archaeological Survey # 25.
 
Sanders, Shelley & Richard Lazenby ed.
1991     The Link that Binds:  The Harvie Family 19th Century Burying
Ground.  Occasional Papers in NE Archaeology # 5, Copetown Press.
 
Shogren, et al
1989    Elko Switch Cemetery:  An Archaeological Perspective.  Alabama
State Museum of Natural  History, report 58.
 
Taylor, Anna J. et al
1986    Archaeological Investigations at Morgan Chapel Cemetery:  A
Historical Cemetery in Bastrop Co., TX.  Un. Of TX at San Antonio,
report # 146.
 
Woodley, Philip J.
n.d.       "Stirrup Court Cemetery Coffin Hardware" in Ontario
Archaeology #53.