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Antique and Modern Commemorative Flag Holders & Plaques Found in Cemeteries
Photos and identifications of these cemetery devices from various types of organizations.
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Article by George G. Morgan.
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Cemetery photos and obituaries. Cemeteries in Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming.
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Cemetery Research and Gravestone Rubbings...a How To, Site
How to research cemeteries, care for tombstones and photograph the stones.
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Cemetery Stones & Monuments: From Quarry to Cemetery Monuments
This cemetery section describes the origin of the stone in the quarry to the installation of the old cemetery stones and monuments. The processes of quarrying and finishing the stone, types of monuments, how cemetery stones/monuments and accessories were advertised in monumental magazines and from catalogs are described through photographs and narrative. There is also a discussion about the many early marble stones that were signed by the stone carvers and monument companies.
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Classic Images prepares a stencil from your clear photograph. Each stencil is hand cut and is an individual work of art. the stencil is used to sandblast the image onto new monuments or existing monuments at the cemetery. Located in Toledo, Ohio.
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How to article from the Connecticut Gravestone Network.
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ClueStones - Where Tombstones Become ClueStones for Genealogists
A commercial web site that is building a database of cemetery layouts with photos of tombstones.
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Dan Weiskotten's Tombstone Research Page
Focusing on lists of tombstone carvers in upper New York state.
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List of current memorial makers in the United States and Canada.
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Introduction to the Farber Gravestone Collection, by Jessie Lie Farber. A great article with information about motifs, spelling, letters and more.
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Tiffin, Ohio. Microfilm at the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University.
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Emblems shown on veterans gravestones and what church they belong to.
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Forgotten Faces: A Window into our Immigrant Past
Forgotten Faces is the first book and site to present collections of early 20th Century Photo-Ceramic Memorial Portraits on tombstones. It explores early memorial portraiture as an art form and as valued historical artifact. It presents the unique beauty of this funerary art as related to immigrant traditions at the turn of the 20th century.
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Engraved stone family tree plaques for sale.
