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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.

Cemetery Iconography

Article by George G. Morgan.

Cemetery Photos

Cemetery photos and obituaries. Cemeteries in Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming.

Cemetery Research and Gravestone Rubbings...a How To, Site

How to research cemeteries, care for tombstones and photograph the stones.

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.

Churchmouse: Australian Cast Iron Gravemarker Photographic Catalogue

Churchmouse: Grimsleys of Oxford: Artificial Stone Gravemarkers

Churchmouse: UK Cast Iron Gravemarker Photographic Catalogue

Classic Images New!

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.

Cleaning Gravestones

How to article from the Connecticut Gravestone Network.

ClueStones - Where Tombstones Become ClueStones for Genealogists

A commercial web site that is building a database of cemetery layouts with photos of tombstones.

Dan Weiskotten's Tombstone Research Page

Focusing on lists of tombstone carvers in upper New York state.

Design Mart Directory

List of current memorial makers in the United States and Canada.

Early American Gravestones

Introduction to the Farber Gravestone Collection, by Jessie Lie Farber. A great article with information about motifs, spelling, letters and more.

Eckhardt Monument Company

Tiffin, Ohio. Microfilm at the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University.

Emblems of Belief

Emblems shown on veterans gravestones and what church they belong to.

Everything you wanted to know about Gravestone Studies and Rubbing

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.

genpride.com

Engraved stone family tree plaques for sale.

Grave Symbols

From the Olive Tree.