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Houston's silent garden : Glenwood Cemetery, 1871-2009

Title: Houston's silent garden : Glenwood Cemetery, 1871-2009 / Suzanne Turner & Joanne Seale Wilson ; color photography by Paul Hester.
Author: Turner, Suzanne, 1950-
Publication: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2010.

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Description

xviii, 284 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 32 cm.

Series Statement

Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities ; no. 12

Uniform Title

Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities ; no. 12.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Models for the landscape of death in the new world -- Glenwood chronology -- The Glenwood story -- Houston before Glenwood: burial grounds for a frontier city -- Founding of the Houston Cemetery Company: private initiative needed -- Creating the garden cemetery: layer upon layer, generation to generation -- The Glenwood Cemetery Association: a new century, a new structure -- Glenwood's landscape character: styles of the times -- Symbolism in stone -- Monuments and sculpture -- A Houston community -- Some Glenwood biographies.

Call Number

ITRM (Houston) 10-4394

ISBN

9781603441636 (cloth : alk. paper)
1603441638 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009025747

OCLC

421533471

Author

Turner, Suzanne, 1950-

Title

Houston's silent garden : Glenwood Cemetery, 1871-2009 / Suzanne Turner & Joanne Seale Wilson ; color photography by Paul Hester.

Imprint

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2010.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities ; no. 12

Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities ; no. 12.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Wilson, Joanne Seale.

Hester, Paul.

Research Call Number

ITRM (Houston) 10-4394

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