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Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
Chicago, the Garden city. Its magnificent parks, boulevards and cemeteries. Together with other descriptive views and sketches

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Title
Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
Description
Caption: "Graceland.--Monument of Frederick and Catharine Wacker." From text: "Before the close of the year 1893 the number of the silent inhabitants of the necropolis Graceland will have reached 60,000. This cemetery is justly famed as one of the finest among Chicago's cities of the dead, and occupies a similar rank here as does Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Spring Grove in Cincinnati, Forest Hill or Mount Auburn in Boston. Among the 500 cemeteries in this country there is but a small number that can compare with Graceland in point of beauty of landscape and the splendor of its monuments."
Date
1893  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagogardencit00simo_raw_0117.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogardencit00simo#page/112/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogardencit00simo
Subject
  • Cemeteries  
  • Tombs & sepulchral monuments  
Coverage-Spatial
Uptown (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1890-1899  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago, the Garden city. Its magnificent parks, boulevards and cemeteries. Together with other descriptive views and sketches  
Author of the Book
Simon, Andreas  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleWacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
DescriptionCaption: "Graceland.--Monument of Frederick and Catharine Wacker." From text: "Before the close of the year 1893 the number of the silent inhabitants of the necropolis Graceland will have reached 60,000. This cemetery is justly famed as one of the finest among Chicago's cities of the dead, and occupies a similar rank here as does Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Spring Grove in Cincinnati, Forest Hill or Mount Auburn in Boston. Among the 500 cemeteries in this country there is but a small number that can compare with Graceland in point of beauty of landscape and the splendor of its monuments."
Date1893  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagogardencit00simo_raw_0117.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogardencit00simo#page/112/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogardencit00simo
Subject
  • Cemeteries  
  • Tombs & sepulchral monuments  
Coverage-SpatialUptown (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1890-1899  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago, the Garden city. Its magnificent parks, boulevards and cemeteries. Together with other descriptive views and sketches  
Author of the BookSimon, Andreas  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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