Elizabeth Broman is a graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Master's Degree In both Library Science and Art History and is recently retired as a Librarian at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in New York City. Her MA thesis was "Egyptian Revival Funerary Art in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY". She continues to pursue Egyptian Revival all these years later and has done presentations on pet cemeteries, hair and mourning jewelry.