Silent Cities: Cemeteries and Classrooms

Name/Title

Silent Cities: Cemeteries and Classrooms

Entry/Object ID

2015.002.012

Description

Suggests research strategies and provides information for interpreting and understanding cemeteries. Contents: Early graveyards -- Mid- and late-eighteenth century graveyards -- The rural cemetery -- African American burial grounds -- Locating and plotting cemeteries -- Inscriptions -- Iconography -- Popular symbols and their meaning -- Gravestone materials -- Form -- Classroom activities -- Notes -- Word search -- Parts of a tombstone -- Documents -- Final resting places of the great and near-great -- Sources -- Published cemetery inscriptions in SC: a selected bibliography. 64 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm. (spiralbound)

Collection

Pamphlets, Guidebooks, Reports, Theses/Dissertations

Acquisition

Accession

2015.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2015)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Cemeteries--South Carolina, Sepulchral monuments--South Carolina, Gravestones--South Carolina, South Carolina--Antiquities, South Carolina--Genealogy

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Other Number

Other Number

P414

Book Details

Author

Helsley, Alexia Jones

Publisher

South Carolina Department of Archives and History

Place Published

Location

Columbia, SC

Date Published

circa 1997

Call No.

F271 .H45 1997

ISBN

1880067447

LCCN

98121229

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Shelf

Books-Pamphlets

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Alexia Jones Helsley. Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-64) and index.

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Create Date

January 13, 2015

Updated By

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Update Date

February 16, 2023