| Description |
xiv, 347 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1989. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : "So witty as to speak" / Richard E. Meyer -- Innocents in a worldly world : Victorian children's gravemarkers / Ellen Marie Snyder -- Bigham carvers of the Carolina Piedmont : stone images of an emerging sense of American identity / Edward W. Clark -- Images of logging on contemporary Pacific Northwest gravemarkers / Richard E. Meyer -- Epitaph and personality revolution / J. Joseph Edgette -- Upland South folk cemetery complex : some suggestions of origin / D. Gregory Jeane -- J.N.B. de Pouilly and French sources of revival style design in New Orleans cemetery architecture / Peggy McDowell -- Afro-American section of Newport, Rhode Island's common burying ground / Ann and Dickran Tashjian -- Navajo, Mormon, Zuni graves : Navajo, Mormon, Zuni ways / Keith Cunningham -- San Fernando cemetery : decorations of love and loss in a Mexican-American community / Lynn Gosnell and Suzanne Gott. |
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Western Pennsylvania cemeteries in transition : a model for subregional analysis / Thomas J. Hannon -- Monumental bronze : a representative American company / Barbara Rotundo -- Strange but genteel pleasure grounds : tourist and leisure uses of nineteenth-century rural cemeteries / Blanche Linden-Ward. |
| Subject |
Sepulchral monuments -- United States.
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Cemeteries -- United States.
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Epitaphs -- United States.
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United States -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Author |
Meyer, Richard E., 1939-
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| ISBN |
0874211603 (pbk.) : $19.95 |
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9780874211603 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 914022 |
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