Author: Henry Weld FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Woodlawn Cemetery in North Chelsea and Malden
Author: Henry Weld FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
An Address Delivered at the Consecration of the Woodlawn Cemetery
Author: George Edward EllisThe Woodlawn Cemetery in North Chelsea and Malden
Author: Address delivered at the consecration of the Woodlawn Cemetery in Chelsea and Malden, etc
Author: George Edward ELLIS (of Charleston, U.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Follies in America
Author: Kerry Dean CarsoPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501755951
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
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.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army (-United States Army, Army Medical Library; -National Library of Medicine).
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Pamphlets, Religious, Sermons
Author: Annual Reports of the Officers and Committees of the Town of Lancaster
Author: Lancaster (Mass. : Town)Publisher:
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Category : Lancaster (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description