Read Buried Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York: A Pictorial Field Guide

Buried Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York: A Pictorial Field Guide

Richard O. Reisem

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Description:The 375,000 people buried in Mount Hope Cemetery created the history of Rochester, and their monuments memorialize their contributions to that history. This book resurrects the stories of some 500 of these individuals and depicts their monuments and their meaning. The good and the bad, the famous and the notorious, the rich and the destitute, the creative and the eccentric, the lucky and the unfortunate, are all represented on these 176 pages with mini-biographies and a pictorial kaleidoscope of Victorian funerary art. The book covers the period from the cemetery's inception in 1838 to 2002. There is even a dictionary of symbols and decorative motifs used in 19th- and 20th-century gravestone design.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Buried Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York: A Pictorial Field Guide. To get started finding Buried Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York: A Pictorial Field Guide, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 176

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery

Release: 2002

ISBN: 0964103338

Description: The 375,000 people buried in Mount Hope Cemetery created the history of Rochester, and their monuments memorialize their contributions to that history. This book resurrects the stories of some 500 of these individuals and depicts their monuments and their meaning. The good and the bad, the famous and the notorious, the rich and the destitute, the creative and the eccentric, the lucky and the unfortunate, are all represented on these 176 pages with mini-biographies and a pictorial kaleidoscope of Victorian funerary art. The book covers the period from the cemetery's inception in 1838 to 2002. There is even a dictionary of symbols and decorative motifs used in 19th- and 20th-century gravestone design.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Buried Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York: A Pictorial Field Guide. To get started finding Buried Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York: A Pictorial Field Guide, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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Buried Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York: A Pictorial Field Guide

Buried Treasures in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York: A Pictorial Field Guide

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