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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | SB466.U65 H688 2010q Oversize | Off-site |
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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.
- ISBN
- 9781603441636 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1603441638 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009025747
- OCLC
- ocn421533471
- SCSB-9760289
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library