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 | Photographs |
| 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 |
| Repository | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Coverage-Spatial | Uptown (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Coverage-Temporal | 1890-1899 |
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| Rights | 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 |
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