Eckels Anatomical Aid, with original chart drawings (Heirloom anatomy guides from a family of undertakers)

Eckels Anatomical Aid belonging to Earl Clifton Miller (1887-1966) and pair of late 1930s anatomical charts by his son, Earl C. Miller, Jr. (1913-1988). The charts measure 22 x 14 inches, drawn in ink and colored pencil, signed and initialed by Earl C. Miller Jr. Eckels Anatomical Aid compiled and published by H.S. Eckels, Philadelphia ca. 1903. Pebbled cloth wallet-fold folio, 15.25 x 11.5 inches. Contains one stiff board with layered foldout diagrams on both sides (head, eye, ear); 8 canvas-backed leaves (4 in color), and additional foldout diagrams on each cover (torso inside the front cover, arm and leg at rear). Eckels' folio reproduces several of the illustrations published in Knox & Graham Physicians' Anatomical Aid (without attribution), focusing on areas relevant to embalming. Eckel has added charts drawn from his own postmortem dissections at Eckels College of Embalming in Philadelphia (est. 1895)–principally a complete arterial system, proudly advertised as "The only spe