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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Perhaps most elaborate of all in this hierarchy of wooden grave decorations for loggers are those examples of markers which bear evidence of great skill in woodcarving of one fashion or another . The family of William A. Peacock ( d .
Perhaps most elaborate of all in this hierarchy of wooden grave decorations for loggers are those examples of markers which bear evidence of great skill in woodcarving of one fashion or another . The family of William A. Peacock ( d .
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97–104 ; “ Tools on Tombstones : Some Indiana Examples , ” Pioneer America 10 : 1 ( June 1978 ) , pp . 106–11 ( repr . in Viewpoints on Folklife , pp . 133–44 ; “ Traditional Tools as Symbols : Some Examples from Indiana Tombstones ...
97–104 ; “ Tools on Tombstones : Some Indiana Examples , ” Pioneer America 10 : 1 ( June 1978 ) , pp . 106–11 ( repr . in Viewpoints on Folklife , pp . 133–44 ; “ Traditional Tools as Symbols : Some Examples from Indiana Tombstones ...
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The design would eventually permeate the American cultural landscape , with examples of this type of cemetery becoming popular in virtually every city in the United States . Gone in the designer's mind was the rigid grid plan of columns ...
The design would eventually permeate the American cultural landscape , with examples of this type of cemetery becoming popular in virtually every city in the United States . Gone in the designer's mind was the rigid grid plan of columns ...
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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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