Author: Rural Cemetery Association, St. LouisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Dedication of the Bellefontaine Cemetery
Author: Rural Cemetery Association, St. LouisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Fleeting Moments
Author: Gunther BarthPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195362675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The tension between nature and culture, which accompanies the rise of any large society, has become a subject of great concern in our time. In this compelling study, Gunther Barth, acclaimed author of City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, identifies fleeting moments of concord between nature and culture in the course of American history. During the search for the Wilderness Passage, the progress of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the building of park cemeteries and big city parks, Americans realized that nature was not merely a force to be reckoned with, not merely a resource to be exploited, but also an integral component of their lives. Through the engineering of nature and culture in the urban environment, the energetic attempts to conserve large-scale nature in the United States emerged as an offspring of the big city. Heightening our understanding of the historical complexity of the relationship between nature and culture, and suggesting that harmony between the two is a mark of civilization, this original study will be an invaluable guide to anyone concerned with the quality of life in America, past and future.
Grave Landscapes
Author: James R. CothranPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611177995
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and use During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement. The movement began in Boston, where a group of reformers that included members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were grappling with the city's mounting burial crisis. Inspired by the naturalistic garden style and melancholy-infused commemorative landscapes that had emerged in Europe, the group established a burial ground outside of Boston on an expansive tract of undulating, wooded land and added meandering roadways, picturesque ponds, ornamental trees and shrubs, and consoling memorials. They named it Mount Auburn and officially dedicated it as a rural cemetery. This groundbreaking endeavor set a powerful precedent that prompted the creation of similarly landscaped rural cemeteries outside of growing cities first in the Northeast, then in the Midwest and South, and later in the West. These burial landscapes became a cultural phenomenon attracting not only mourners seeking solace, but also urbanites seeking relief from the frenetic confines of the city. Rural cemeteries predated America's public parks, and their popularity as picturesque retreats helped propel America's public parks movement. This beautifully illustrated volume features more than 150 historic photographs, stereographs, postcards, engravings, maps, and contemporary images that illuminate the inspiration for rural cemeteries, their physical evolution, and the nature of the landscapes they inspired. Extended profiles of twenty-four rural cemeteries reveal the cursive design features of this distinctive landscape type prior to the American Civil War and its evolution afterward. Grave Landscapes details rural cemetery design characteristics to facilitate their identification and preservation and places rural cemeteries into the broader context of American landscape design to encourage appreciation of their broader influence on the design of public spaces.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: A Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Legal Literature: A-G
Author: John AdamsPublisher: Avero Publications
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Widener Library Shelflist: American history
Author: Harvard University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Forty Years of Pioneer Life. Memoir of J. M. Peck. Edited from His Journals and Correspondence. By R. Babcock
Author: John Mason PECKPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description