Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
National Cemetery in Every State
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Granite
Author: A New and Complete Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America
Author: Richard Swainson FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
The Rural Cemetery Movement
Author: Jeffrey SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781498529020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
This study provides a cultural history of cemeteries and their changing role from the 1830s through the early twentieth century. The author examines how cemeteries became places for leisure, communing with nature, and crafting collective memory and analyzes how they served as prototypes for urban planning and city parks.
Historic Residential Suburbs
Author: David L. AmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Jackson County, Ohio
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1563110695
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Country Gentleman
Author: Rest in Peace
Author: Meg GreenePublisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822534142
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Presents a history of cemeteries in the United States, from early burial grounds to the landcaped designs of the nineteenth century to alternative methods of burial designed for the twenty-first century.
The American Resting Place
Author: Marilyn YalomPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547345437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
An illustrated cultural history of America through the lens of its gravestones and burial practices—featuring eighty black-and-white photographs. In The American Resting Place, cultural historian Marilyn Yalom and her son, photographer Reid Yalom, visit more than 250 cemeteries across the United States. Following a coast-to-coast trajectory that mirrors the historical pattern of American migration, their destinations highlight America’s cultural and ethnic diversity as well as the evolution of burials rites over the centuries. Yalom’s incisive reading of gravestone inscriptions reveals changing ideas about death and personal identity, as well as how class and gender play out in stone. Rich particulars include the story of one seventeenth-century Bostonian who amassed a thousand pairs of gloves in his funeral-going lifetime, the unique burial rites and funerary symbols found in today’s Native American cultures, and a “lost” Czech community brought uncannily to life in Chicago’s Bohemian National Columbarium. From fascinating past to startling future—DVDs embedded in tombstones, “green” burials, and “the new aesthetic of death”—The American Resting Place is the definitive history of the American cemetery.