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Gateway to Oak Woods Cemetery
Chicago, the Garden city. Its magnificent parks, boulevards and cemeteries. Together with other descriptive views and sketches

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Title
Gateway to Oak Woods Cemetery
Description
Caption: "Gateway to Oakwoods (sic) Cemetery." From text: "This beautiful cemetery stands in the front rank, as one of the handsomest of Chicago's burial grounds. It is located south of 67th St. between Cottage Grove Ave. and the I. C. R. R. track. The distance from the business center is about seven miles. ... In drawing the plan for the grounds, the Association was fortunate in securing the services of the late Mr. Adolph Strauch, Superintendent of Spring Grove Cemetery, at Cincinnati, who as a landscape gardener and Superintendent of cemeteries, probably had no equal. Before work was commenced in 1864, he visited and made a thorough examination of the land ... Then, with a detailed survey, showing the elevation, he drafted the plan now presented to the public, designating the lowest land for artificial lakes, and the higher to be made still higher, and formed into beautiful mounds with the earth taken from the lakes. The avenues are laid out in gentle curves and on an established grade."
Date
1893  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagogardencit00simo_raw_0153.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogardencit00simo#page/148/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogardencit00simo
Subject
Cemeteries  
Coverage-Spatial
Greater Grand Crossing (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
TitleGateway to Oak Woods Cemetery
DescriptionCaption: "Gateway to Oakwoods (sic) Cemetery." From text: "This beautiful cemetery stands in the front rank, as one of the handsomest of Chicago's burial grounds. It is located south of 67th St. between Cottage Grove Ave. and the I. C. R. R. track. The distance from the business center is about seven miles. ... In drawing the plan for the grounds, the Association was fortunate in securing the services of the late Mr. Adolph Strauch, Superintendent of Spring Grove Cemetery, at Cincinnati, who as a landscape gardener and Superintendent of cemeteries, probably had no equal. Before work was commenced in 1864, he visited and made a thorough examination of the land ... Then, with a detailed survey, showing the elevation, he drafted the plan now presented to the public, designating the lowest land for artificial lakes, and the higher to be made still higher, and formed into beautiful mounds with the earth taken from the lakes. The avenues are laid out in gentle curves and on an established grade."
Date1893  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagogardencit00simo_raw_0153.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogardencit00simo#page/148/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogardencit00simo
SubjectCemeteries  
Coverage-SpatialGreater Grand Crossing (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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