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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. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...J. Ringgold-H 44 'Wines, Enoch C.-L 42 Walter, Thomas U.-L 387 Wise, John--M 32 Wister, William Wynne I 223 Whelan, Edward-H 60 Waldron, Nathaniel-L 154 Wells, Eleanor--M 22 Wood, William B.-L 129 Woodward, Charles and Samuel---M 19 White, Elizabeth, and Gray, Robert E.-G 149, half east, half west. Williams, Christopher C. L 208 Wray, Alexander-R 152, south half. Wray, James--R 152, north half. Wilkins, Wm.W., M.D., Gaston, N. C. L 171 Widdifield, James-I 58,59 Wright, Peter--B 43 Wright, Robert K.. I 5 Wright, James A.-B 42 Whipple, Mary--G 65 Wise, Jacob--R 113 West, George E.-R 22 Welsh, John H. I fi g West, James S Name. Wise, Charles Wise, John... Wilson, Franklin S.-White, William R.-Warner, Joseph-Wilson, Thomas, Falls of Schuylkill. Williams, Eliphalet, Northampton, Mass. Wright, Paulina S., Uti. co, New York-West, George G.-Wainwright, William. Watts, Henry M., J Shoenberger, Peter, V M'Cormick, Pollard) Waters, Samuel-Waterman, Isaac S.-Watkin, Robert-Watson, William Wright, Elizabeth, and Com. C. Stewart Wright, Archibald Wood, George B., M. D. Wood, Charles S. Webb, Reuben-Wallace, J. R.-Williams, Samuel, Es-tate of----Williams, Charles B.-CHAPTER V. THE TREES AND SHRUBS. "Bring flowers, pale flowers, o'er the bier to spread, A crown for the brow of the early dead! For this through the leaves hath the white rose burst, For this in the woods was the violet nurst--Though they sigh in vain for what once was ours. They are love's last gift! bring ye flowers--pale flowers!" Mrs. Hemans. The botanical riches of Laurel Hill being frequently alluded to, we insert a catalogue of a few of the most remarkable and interesting varieties of the trees and shrubs which have been collected at this spot. The following list embraces a...
Her articles have appeared in the Journal of the Civil War Era and Markers: The Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies.
This book advances the thesis that memorials are fundamentally rhetorical and cultural forms of expression, that a careful examination of American memorializing discloses the contours of at least three distinct American cultures, and that shifting visual and discursive memorial patterns across time reveal the ascendancy and subordination of these three cultures and their cultural memories. It unveils a mode of human expression that embodies the ethoi and world views of divergent American cultures--each of which has possessed and continues to seek to possess America's hegemonic voice and to become (or remain) the custodian of America's collective memory. The unveiling of memorializing as a mode of expression proceeds diachronically and synchronically. Diachronically tracing the contours of American memorial traditions from 1630 to the present provides a nearly cinemagraphic representationof the ebb and flow, the movement and moment of cultural transformation and dominance. This demonstrates why the content of public memory at any given moment in a multicultural society depends largely on the needs and inclinations, the values and the norms, the ethos and the world view of the culture that is dominant at that moment. Within this interpretive frame, responses to Lincoln's assassination--considered as a synchronic balance--provide images akin to still photographs of a specific moment and place that deepen our understanding of memorializing. Taken together, these twin focal points reveal a historically embedded cultural struggle that has significant implications for how we interpret cultural conflict in past, present, and future America.
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
Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
When Mount Auburn opened as the first “rural” cemetery in the United States in 1831, it represented a new way for Americans to think about burial sites. It broke with conventional notions about graveyards as places to bury and commemorate the dead. Rather, the founders of Mount Auburn and the spate of similar cemeteries that followed over the next three decades before the Civil War created institutions that they envisioned being used by the living in new ways. Cemeteries became places for leisure, communing with nature, and creating a version of collective memory. In fact, these cemeteries reflected changing values and attitudes of Americans spanning much of the nineteenth century. In the process, they became paradoxical: they were “rural” yet urban, natural yet designed, artistic yet industrial, commemorating the dead yet used by the living. The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America breaks new ground in the history of cemeteries in the nineteenth century. This book examines these “rural” cemeteries modeled after Mount Auburn that were founded between the 1830s and 1850s. As such, it provides a new way of thinking about these spaces and new paradigm for seeing and visiting them. While they fulfilled the sacred function of burial, they were first and foremost businesses. The landscape and design, regulation of gravestones, appearance, and rhetoric furthered their role as a business that provided necessary services in cities that went well beyond merely burying bodies. They provided urban green spaces and respites from urban life, established institutions where people could craft their roles in collective memory, and served as prototypes for both urban planning and city parks. These cemeteries grew and thrived in the second half of the nineteenth century; for most, the majority of their burials came before 1910. This expansion of cemeteries coincided with profound urban growth in the United States. Unlike their predecessors, founders of these burial grounds intended them to be used in many ways that reflected their views and values about nature, life and death, and relationships. Emphasis on worldly accomplishments increased with industrialization and growth in the United States, which was reflected in changing ways people commemorated their dead during the period under this study. Thus, these cemeteries are a prism through which to understand the values, attitudes, and culture of urban America from mid-century through the Progressive Era.