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Title: Farber Gravestone Collection
Url: http://www.davidrumsey.com/farber/
Creator: Rumsey, David,; 1944-
Publisher: American Antiquarian Society
Description: The Farber Gravestone Collection is a repository of more than 13,500 images that depict the sculpture and design of over 9,000 gravestones. The majority of the gravestones represented on the site were created before the year 1800. While most of the depicted headstones are from the New England states, gravestones from eastern Canada, England, and Ireland are also part of the collection. The impressive collection is available both via web browser interface, and via a standalone java application. This collection may be useful to anyone wishing to learn more about the history of funerals and burials as well as instructors looking for visual aids for their history or mortuary science classrooms.
LC Classification: Fine arts -- Sculpture -- Sculpture - Special forms -- Sepulchral monuments -- Stone monuments, tablets, etc.
Fine arts -- Sculpture -- Sculpture - Special forms -- Sepulchral monuments -- Stone monuments, tablets, etc. -- By region or country -- United States
GEM Subject: Social studies
Arts
Arts -- Visual arts
Social studies -- United States history
Social studies -- Anthropology
Date Issued: 2003
Resource Type: Reference Material
Audio/Visual -- Image/Image Set
Format: Document -- HTML
Education Level: Vocational/Professional Development Education
Language: English
Rights: American Antiquarian Society
Access Rights: Free access
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