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Tag Archives: Green-Wood Cemetery

Pickelhaube!

A 4-year-old boy sculpted in a realistic Prussian military getup of Franco-Prussian War vintage on his tomb in KENTUCKY? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, people.

Posted bygsb03632November 17, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, photography, U.S. Civil War, UnionTags: Cave Hill Cemetery, Franco-Prussian War, Green-Wood Cemetery, Louisville KY, New York City, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7ii, Pickelhaube2 Comments on Pickelhaube!

The rich die not as you and I

A New York magnate colonizes a hilltop in Green-Wood.

Posted bygsb03632June 18, 2020Posted incemeteries, landscape architectureTags: Brooklyn NY, Green-Wood Cemetery, landscape architectureLeave a comment on The rich die not as you and I

Kit

William Smith died at Bull Run and went on to better things. His abandoned kit awaits us at Green-Wood in Brooklyn.

Posted bygsb03632June 8, 2020June 8, 2020Posted incemeteriesTags: Bull Run, Civil War, Green-Wood Cemetery, uniform, Union Army1 Comment on Kit

Siegesgöttin

An angel writing in a book in Green-Wood: what’s up with that?

Posted bygsb03632May 4, 2020January 22, 2021Posted incemeteries, public artTags: Brescia IT, Brooklyn NY, Column of Trajan, Green-Wood Cemetery, laurels, Musei Capitolini, Museo Civico Romano Brescia, palm, Rome Italy, Trajan, trophy, Venus, Venus de Milo, Venus of Capua, Venus of Willendorf, Victory, victory iconography, Victory of Brescia2 Comments on Siegesgöttin

A rose by any other name

Come for the charming floral symbolism, stay for a child’s creepy poetic hallucination about the afterlife! It’s like the Oompa loompas make an appearance.

Posted bygsb03632May 2, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteries, poetryTags: Brooklyn NY, brownstone, Green-Wood Cemetery, iambs, infant mortality, Oompa loompas, poetry, rose, Sarah TelfordLeave a comment on A rose by any other name

Tomb of the shipbuilder

The monogram alone is worth the price of admission!

Posted bygsb03632May 1, 2020June 2, 2020Posted incemeteriesTags: Brooklyn NY, Green-Wood Cemetery, hawser, laurel wreath, obelisk, shipbuilder2 Comments on Tomb of the shipbuilder

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