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638738
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Cemeteries and gravemarkers : : voices of American culture /\ edited by Richard E. Meyer ; with a foreword by James Deetz.
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| Publication Statement
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Logan, Utah :: Utah State University Press,, 1992.
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xiv, 347 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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0874211603 (pbk.)
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: 9780874211603 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Originally published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1989.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-339) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : "so witty as to speak" / Richard E. Meyer -- Innocents in a worldly world : Victorian children's gravemarkers / Ellen Marie Snyder -- The 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 -- The epitaph and personality revolution / J. Joseph Edgette -- The 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 -- The 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.
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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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| LC Classification
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GT3203.C46 1992
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| Added Entry
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Meyer, Richard E.,1939-
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