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2023.055.3.0386Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large number of people gathered in front of a large stone structure, a number of United States flags are hung/on display. Above the image "42" is printed, below the image "32255 Memorial Day Exercises in the New Memoiral Amphitheater, Arlington National Cemetery, Va." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32255
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES, MAY 30, 1928, IN THe NEW MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATER, ARLINGTON NAT. CEMETERY, VIRGINIA.
Two miles due S. of Georgetwon, on Arlington Heights, we find ourselves in the greatest and most widely known of all American military burial places, the Arlington national Cemetery. It lies along the hills in the general form of a crescent extending N. and S. and from many points on the undulating slopes and crests of its 408 acres, magnificent views stretch eastward across the Potomac and over Washington.
The ground was first utilized for a national Cemetery in 1864, for Union soldiers dying in the military hospitals of Washington, Alexandria and vicinity. Later it became the place of interment for large numbers of other soldiers of the Civil war and of late wars. More distinguished officers of the U. S. Army and Navy are buried here than in any other cemetery and the tome of these men aloe would render it a place of the deepest interest to any patriotic American. To the present time about 36,100 dead have been interred in Arlington. In 1920, owing largely to the efforts of the Grand Army of the Republi, the new Memorial Amphitheater in which we are now standing was completed, replacing an older one built in 1873 as a place for holding the exercises of Memorial Day, and for other ceremonial occasions. it stands near the center of the cemetery, at the head of the eastern slope, commanding a wide view over Washington. The roofless, oval auditorium, capable of holding 9,000 people, is 260 fet. by 236 ft. in size. It is built entirely of white marble with a spacious reception hall and alrge stage. Its classic design bears points of resemblance to both the Theater of Dionysius at Athens and the Roman Theater at Orange, Frane, though it also harmonizes in general character with the old Colonial buildings of Washington.
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