There was a remarkable desire to commemorate the first death of a local soldier or sailor after World War I.
Category Archives: American funerary portraits
Hawkins’ Zouaves
Julius Langbein’s mausoleum makes aggressive claims on his behalf. See a new appendix with additional evidence for social competition among veterans!
Do not remove Tag under penalty of law
There are some wonderful monuments that feature a symbolic empty chair.
Self-made Man
A fascinating knockoff of Bobbie Carlyle’s Self-made Man sculpture with a portrait head of the deceased! *Chef’s kiss*
The Ithacan
Come for the attractive memorial but stay to find a seemingly lost work by a little-known New York artist, Charles Michael Angelo Lang.
Daniel Miles, victim of Gettysburg
Daniel Miles died of wounds received repulsing Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.
The Jago monument
The monument of George Jago compels interest for its use of a popular song and its odd iconography.
The Rev. Leonard Black Monument
Born enslaved in 1820, he was seen to his rest by 5000 admirers in 1883.
The most wonderful mausoleum in the world
We look into a mausoleum and into another age, an age long gone and as dead as the cadavers within. And yet somehow a colored photograph of a hot summer day brings an immediacy and life to the departed. I hear cicadas and the cascade of water. A gentle breeze occasionally rustles the leaves. The father is yelling at them to BE STILL.
Her Courageous Spirit Lives On
A masterpiece by Oronzio Maldarelli in Spring Forest Cemetery.
