The Museum's object and archival collections continue to grow thanks to the support of funeral directors and private collectors across the United States. An abbreviated wish list appears below.

Archival material

• Professional journals and magazines (all periods)
• Catalogs (funeral supply, caskets, hearses, etc.)
• Casket sales photos and binders
• Technical leaflets (produced by fluid companies)
• Textbooks and Mortuary school material (course notes, class photos, diplomas, etc.)
• Licenses (wall and wallet sized)
• Photos (viewing, restorative work, mortuary interiors, promotional, etc.)
• Older paid invoices and business records
• Register book, acknowledgment card, & Mass card sample albums or binders
• Death notices and service announcement cards
• Mortuary calendars, fans, and advertising items
• Cremation literature

Objects

• Waste container with flip lid (dating from the 1920s)
• Zephyr injector (“bottle top” injection pump)
• Formaldehyde gas fumigator
• Blickens device
• Child’s wicker ambulance basket
• Fluid bottles (empty or full) with or without labels
• Ice caskets
• Coffins and caskets (cloth-covered, hardwood, and steel)
• Coffin or casket lining fabric remnants
• Casket handles and hardware
• Casket sales samples (miniatures, end sections, etc.)
• Cloth casket swatch books
• Vault display models, literature, posters, and sales cards
• Lowering device models
• Monument sales items
• Floral baskets and wire floral arrangement frames
• Floor standing tall wicker flower basket (with or without lamp)
• Undertaking business signs
• Burial clothing (all time periods but especially for children)
• Mourning clothing and jewelry
• Prep room and directors’ apparel
• Biers
• Kneeler lamp
• Casket lamps
• Wicker chapel furniture