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Category Archives: American funerary portraits

Daniel Miles, victim of Gettysburg

Daniel Miles died of wounds received repulsing Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg.

Posted bygsb03632April 3, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, U.S. Civil War, UnionTags: 69th Regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, Danville PA, Gettysburg, IOOF Cemetery, Pickett's Charge2 Comments on Daniel Miles, victim of Gettysburg

The Jago monument

The monument of George Jago compels interest for its use of a popular song and its odd iconography.

Posted bygsb03632January 9, 2021January 9, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, poetry, U.S. Civil War, UnionTags: Flourtown PA, The Tired Soldier, Union Cemetery1 Comment on The Jago monument

The Rev. Leonard Black Monument

Born enslaved in 1820, he was seen to his rest by 5000 admirers in 1883.

Posted bygsb03632December 19, 2020December 20, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteriesTags: Brown University, People's Memorial Cemetery, Petersburg VA, slave narrativeLeave a comment on The Rev. Leonard Black Monument

The most wonderful mausoleum in the world

I experience elegiac emotions while falling into this picture as I view it—as the designer no doubt intended.

Posted bygsb03632August 11, 2020August 11, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, architecture, cemeteries, photographyTags: Bethlehem PA, funerary portrait, Nisky Hill Cemetery, pastoral, photographic funerary art5 Comments on The most wonderful mausoleum in the world

Her Courageous Spirit Lives On

A masterpiece by Oronzio Maldarelli in Spring Forest Cemetery.

Posted bygsb03632August 9, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, architecture, cemeteries, landscape architecture, photography, public artTags: Binghamton N.Y., Oronzio Maldarelli, Spring Forest Cemetery1 Comment on Her Courageous Spirit Lives On

Villard monument

To borrow the Guide Michelin’s phrase, “vaut le voyage.”

Posted bygsb03632July 23, 2020July 24, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, photography, public artTags: Art Nouveau, Karl Bitter, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown N.Y.Leave a comment on Villard monument

Still on guard

Outstanding and informative private monuments erected for two Union Civil War veterans.

Posted bygsb03632July 17, 2020August 16, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, public art, U.S. Civil War, UnionTags: Civil War, common soldier monument, G.A.R., Gettysburg, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia PA, Wilkes Barre City Cemetery, Wilkes-BarreLeave a comment on Still on guard

Hartranft obelisk

An attractive setting to photograph, with a dismaying surprise.

Posted bygsb03632July 11, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, landscape architecture, photography, public artTags: bas relief, Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown PA, obelisk, portrait roundel, vandalismLeave a comment on Hartranft obelisk

The light of Lister

The 1898 Lister monument in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery caught during a thunderstorm.

Posted bygsb03632July 5, 2020July 9, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, architecture, cemeteries, photographyTags: iPhone, Moment lens, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown N.Y.1 Comment on The light of Lister

Schäflein

A Moravian hymn graces the monument of little Luther Campbell in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

Posted bygsb03632June 5, 2020June 6, 2020Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, poetryTags: Catherine Winkworth, child portrait, Glenwood Cemetery, Henrietta von Hayn, hymn, Lutheranism, Moravian Christianity, trochees, Washington D.C.1 Comment on Schäflein

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