Cemeteries GravemarkersCemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large. |
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of John Stevenses as well as that of John Bull , a contemporary of young Stevens III , and their helpers , slaves , and / or servants.14 Bull carved many of the cherubs for these deceased slaves with a characteristic clarity and flat ...
of John Stevenses as well as that of John Bull , a contemporary of young Stevens III , and their helpers , slaves , and / or servants.14 Bull carved many of the cherubs for these deceased slaves with a characteristic clarity and flat ...
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worked in the John Stevens shop . Even so , without other evidence , this provenance must remain speculative . Pompe Stevens is the only black eighteenth - century stonecarver whom we can identify by virtue of his own statement on a ...
worked in the John Stevens shop . Even so , without other evidence , this provenance must remain speculative . Pompe Stevens is the only black eighteenth - century stonecarver whom we can identify by virtue of his own statement on a ...
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the Stevens family shop . ( It is , of course , always possible that he was primarily a common laborer in the shop and tried his hand at carving only those few stones intended for kin . ) The handicraft of Pompe Stevens offers only ...
the Stevens family shop . ( It is , of course , always possible that he was primarily a common laborer in the shop and tried his hand at carving only those few stones intended for kin . ) The handicraft of Pompe Stevens offers only ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Pealkiri | Cemeteries Gravemarkers |
| Editor | Richard Meyer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Utah State University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 mär. 2005 |
| ISBN | 0874211603, 9780874211603 |
| Length | 347 pages |
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