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The American resting place Marilyn Yalom ; photographs by Reid Yalom
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 159 .Y35 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yalom, Marilyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cemeteries--United States.
- Cemeteries.
- Cemeteries--United States--Pictorial works.
- United States--History, Local.
- United States.
- United States--History, Local--Pictorial works.
- Sepulchral monuments--United States.
- Sepulchral monuments.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 336 p., [64] of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
- Contents:
- Claiming the land
- Marking the grave
- Solidarity in the cemetery
- Distancing the dead
- Death's-heads and funeral gloves: Boston, Massachusetts
- "Gone are the living, but the dead remains": Newport, Rhode Island
- Cemeteries as real estate: New York City
- Plain and fancy: Philadelphia and Lancaster County
- The southern way of death: South Carolina and Georgia
- New Orleans: where it's better to be buried above ground
- Rituals of remembrance: St. Louis and the Boonslick
- Ethnicity, religion, and class in underground Chicago
- Celebrating the dead in Polyglot Texas
- California: missionaries, miners, moguls, and movie stars
- Who owns the bones? Sites and rites in Hawaii
- National military cemeteries
- Old and new fashions in death.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780618624270
- 0618624279
- OCLC:
- 191758299
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