Cemeteries GravemarkersRichard Meyer Utah State University Press, 1992 - 347 pages Cemeteries 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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Page 152
... preference for the Classical Revival styles , and he used the Classical Revival vocabulary with facility in a variety of his designs . A major example of its application on an extensive scale was found in the design by de Pouilly and ...
... preference for the Classical Revival styles , and he used the Classical Revival vocabulary with facility in a variety of his designs . A major example of its application on an extensive scale was found in the design by de Pouilly and ...
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... preference for pastel decorations and for white lilies on Easter . The preference for orderly patterning is evident in the simplest as well as in the most elaborately decorated sites , as exemplified by the bilateral placement of ...
... preference for pastel decorations and for white lilies on Easter . The preference for orderly patterning is evident in the simplest as well as in the most elaborately decorated sites , as exemplified by the bilateral placement of ...
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... preference has been that is is related to a practice taken from the British Isles and trans- planted here . Though it may also be argued that such selection represents a function of the undulating terrain of the region , my own ...
... preference has been that is is related to a practice taken from the British Isles and trans- planted here . Though it may also be argued that such selection represents a function of the undulating terrain of the region , my own ...
Contents
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
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