VICTORIAN GARDEN CEMETERIES
BURIED TREASURE: THE ARTISTS & ARCHITECTS OF GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY
Margaret & William Ward. Photographs by Constance Halporn
The Wards spent more than 30 years researching and walking about this wonderful cemetery, a triumph of Victorian philosophy, art, religious attitudes, and style. This booklet covers Green-Wood's founding, its varied landscapes and plantings, biographies of artists who rest there, and those whose work memorializes others. Plot locator included.
1997 60 pp. ISBN 0-930194-03-3 Pap. $8.95 Download Order Form
AT HOME IN GREEN-WOOD, Biographical sketches of inhabitants created for a "living tour."
Verbal portraits of Currier, De Witt Clinton, Boss Tweed, Lola Montez, Sam Morse, Greeley, both Tiffanies, Emma Stebbins, Charlotte Canda, musician Gottschalk, & Niblo, founder-the 1st American musical hall. Incl. plots.
1997 SBN 0-930194-57-8 30 pp., Pap. $6.95 Download Order Form
WELCOME TO GREEN-WOOD: A SELF-GUIDED LOCATOR TO ARTS & ARTISTS.
Margaret Ward.
1999 $1.00 Download Order Form
THE ENGLISH LADIES' GUIDE TO VICTORIAN ETIQUETTE: FUNERALS & MOURNING
(1888) Excavated by John Martine "Right and Proper" decorum for the 19th century Lady. This 12-page pamphlet provides the absolutely correct epistles of sympathy, invitations to parties (sic) and funerals, appropriate etiquette at funerals, tombstone inscriptions, and poems of mourning.
Pap. $7.00 Download Order Form
IN MEMORY OF . . .
Two 4 color prints by Currier & Ives to choose from: A grieving Victorian woman at a memorial, or a couple in morning at the site.
Each $8.00 Download Order Form
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