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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... tomb , it should be clarified , is a monument with multiple vaults used by members of an organization such as a ... tomb or did not own a family vault . As was the tradition in New Orleans , the vaults in all these tombs were usually ...
... tomb , it should be clarified , is a monument with multiple vaults used by members of an organization such as a ... tomb or did not own a family vault . As was the tradition in New Orleans , the vaults in all these tombs were usually ...
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... tomb employs multiple rows of burial chambers across the outside walls . Numerous New Orleans tombs for mural burials present this economical vertical and hori- zontal stacking of vaults . The New Lusitanos Society tomb ( fig . 6.3 ) ...
... tomb employs multiple rows of burial chambers across the outside walls . Numerous New Orleans tombs for mural burials present this economical vertical and hori- zontal stacking of vaults . The New Lusitanos Society tomb ( fig . 6.3 ) ...
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... tomb in de Pouilly's Père Lachaise book shows a similar type with comparable use of such torches ( fig . 6.5 ) . The Foucher design is essentially a single version of this type . Interestingly , the McCall and Jones families ' tomb ...
... tomb in de Pouilly's Père Lachaise book shows a similar type with comparable use of such torches ( fig . 6.5 ) . The Foucher design is essentially a single version of this type . Interestingly , the McCall and Jones families ' tomb ...
Contents
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
Copyright | |
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