Download or read book Smith s Illustrated Guide to and Through Laurel Hill Cemetery written by Willis P Hazard and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Smith s Illustrated Guide to and Through Laurel Hill Cemetery written by R. A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smith s illustrated guide to and through Laurel Hill Cemetery and a tour up the Schuylkill written by R. A. SMITH (of Philadelphia.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smith s Illustrated Guide to and Through Laurel Hill Cemetery with a Glance at Celebrated Tombs and Burying places Ancient and Modern and a Tour Up the Schuylkill written by R. A. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smith s Illustrated Guide to and Through Laurel Hill Cemetery with a Glance at Celebrated Tombs and Burying Places Ancient and Modern an Historical written by R. A. Smith and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...the impress of their being on our sphere, And each of every clinie, colour and of race Will at the judgment take his place." O Saviour! when that fearful morning Shall show thee on the coming cloud, -And the last trumpet's awful warning, Pierce the slumber of my shroud; And earth and sea, with all their glories pass away, Be thou, O Lord! this trembling spirit's stay. SECTION C. The southern boundary of this section is on a line with the front of the chapel. It is subdivided also, by an avenue running parallel with the carriage-road into two plots. On the south-east termination of this portion of the ground, immediately overlooking the carriage-road, rises the monument of Oscm Douemss, a Philadelphia fireman, who was killed by the falling of a wall, while in the discharge of his duty, January 23d, 1841. The monument is decorated with several creditable' pieces of sculpturing. The ornamental wreath surrounding the name "Douglass" on the south, and the two hands on the north front, are boldly and correctly executed. The memorial sets forth that the deceased " fell a sacrifice to his zeal as a fireman, in the twentyseventh year of his age, at the conflagration of January 23d,1841, in Market Street above Third," and that this tribute was "dedicated August 2d, 1841, in respect to his many virtues, by his fellow-members of the Philadel phia fire company," and the " Light Artillery corps of Washington Grays." Following the carriage-road, we have a short distance further west, the monument of MAJoR LEVI Tw1ees, U. S. A., who fell leading his command to the assault at the storming of Chapultepec in Mexico on the 13th of September, 1847. This rich and appropriate tribute of...
Download or read book The Revival Styles in American Memorial Art written by Peggy McDowell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly illustrated volume, art historian Peggy McDowell and folklorist Richard E. Meyer blend their respective disciplinary perspectives, along with their shared long-standing fascination with cemeteries and funerary material culture, to provide a thoroughgoing descriptive analysis of this dramatic chapter in the history of American memorial art.
Download or read book Grave Landscapes written by James R. Cothran and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Material Christianity written by Colleen McDannell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the religious objects used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans tell us about American Christianity? What is the relationship between the beliefs of the faithful and the landscapes they build? This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the last 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between religion and mass consumption. She describes examples of nineteenth-century religious practice: Victorians burying their dead in cultivated cemetery parks; Protestants producing and displaying elaborate family Bibles; Catholics writing for special water from Lourdes reputed to have miraculous powers. And she looks at today's Christians: Mormons wearing sacred underclothing as a reminder of their religious promises, Catholics debating the design of tasteful churches, and Protestants manufacturing, marketing, and using a vast array of prints, clothing, figurines, jewelry, and toys that some label "Jesus junk" but that others see as a witness to their faith. McDannell claims that previous studies of American Christianity have overemphasized the written, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of religion, presenting faith as a disembodied system of beliefs. She shifts attention from the church and the theological seminary to the workplace, home, cemetery, and Sunday school, highlighting a different Christianity--one in which average Christians experience the divine, the nature of death, the power of healing, and the meaning of community through interacting with a created world of devotional images, environments, and objects.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection 1785 1900 written by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Characteristically American written by Joy Giguere and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era and Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies.
