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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The White Bronze Advocate in 1883 had divided the country in two and had given Detroit jurisdiction over Michigan , Indiana , Kentucky , Tennessee , and " all States West ” ( though Bridgeport kept Texas ) . We may never discover why ...
The White Bronze Advocate in 1883 had divided the country in two and had given Detroit jurisdiction over Michigan , Indiana , Kentucky , Tennessee , and " all States West ” ( though Bridgeport kept Texas ) . We may never discover why ...
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In 1886 , as the popularity of white bronze was reaching its greatest height , the paper reported negotiations with a firm in New Brunswick for supplying the maritime provinces . These plans never developed further because all signed ...
In 1886 , as the popularity of white bronze was reaching its greatest height , the paper reported negotiations with a firm in New Brunswick for supplying the maritime provinces . These plans never developed further because all signed ...
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There seems to have been an unspoken boycott of white bronze markers by marble and granite dealers . I know of just two exceptions : a dealer in Cedar Rapids , Iowa , sold both marble and white bronze monuments , and the catalog of the ...
There seems to have been an unspoken boycott of white bronze markers by marble and granite dealers . I know of just two exceptions : a dealer in Cedar Rapids , Iowa , sold both marble and white bronze monuments , and the catalog of the ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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