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Sacred ground : the cemeteries of New Orleans

Title
Sacred ground : the cemeteries of New Orleans / Robert S. Brantley ; introduction by S. Frederick Starr.
Author
Brantley, Robert S.
Publication
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2019]

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Additional Authors
Starr, S. Frederick
Description
191 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm
Summary
"A sumptuous photographic portrait of New Orleans' legendary cemeteries and their collage of architectural monuments, sculptural memorials, ironwork, and landscapes, shown as living structures that are unique expressions of remembrance and identity. The open-air museums of each cemetery, really tell vivid stories about the Crescent City's haunting social history. With S. Frederick Starr's introduction, Brantley's 20 brief biographies, and Heather Veneziano's symbolic interpretations, Sacred Ground offers an absolute and artful display of the rituals, traditions, and unusual customs born out of New Orleans' environment, religious culture, and ethnic diversity."--Provided by publisher.
Alternative Title
New Orleans cemeteries
Subject
  • Cemeteries > Louisiana > New Orleans
  • Cemeteries > Louisiana > Pictorial works
  • Cemeteries
  • New Orleans (La.) > Biography
  • Louisiana
  • Louisiana > New Orleans
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • Pictorial works.
Contents
Part 1. Twenty biographies : identity, history, rites of passage -- Silent sentinels against time -- Nicolas Mioton (1791-1834) -- John Lawless (1810-1850) Kasper Auch (1811-1886) -- John Davidson (1816-1872) -- Richard B. Sumner (1816-1868) -- Edward Sweeney (1822-1874) -- Rev. Emperor Williams (1826-1896) -- Seymour Alexander Stewart (1835-1856) -- John Oliver Locke (1836-1864) -- Captain Eugene Pierre Gaspard (1839-1889) -- Rev. Rene M. J. Vallee (1839-1892) -- William H. Webb (1839-1884) -- C. Otto Weber (1847-1901) -- Martha Lena Little (1856-1920) -- Heinrick Benthin (1857-1928) -- Albert Richard Edbrooke (1870-1925) -- Virginia Gleaves Lazarus (1871-1897) -- Charles Ferdinand Vorbusch (1891-1915) -- Leslie Philip Backes (1897-1918) -- Anonymous (unknown-2018) -- Part 2. The photographs -- A photographer's vision.
ISBN
  • 9781616898212
  • 1616898216
LCCN
2018055158
OCLC
  • on1076413988
  • SCSB-9552878
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library