Woodlawn Cemetery records, 1863-1999
Summary Information
Abstract
The Woodlawn Cemetery archive documents the history of the grounds, mausolea, monuments, and operations of Woodlawn Cemetery, founded in 1863 in The Bronx, New York, and one of the largest in the United States. The collection includes architectural designs records, maps, photographs, correspondence, construction and maintenance records, and other historical documents, spanning 140 years of the cemetery's operations.
At a Glance
- Bib ID:
- 6665518 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Woodlawn Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
- Repository:
- Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
- Physical Description:
- 300 linear feet (approximately)
- Language(s):
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English
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- Access:
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This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Description
Summary
This collection includes records created and collected by the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, during the course of their operations between 1863 and circa 1990.
Of particular interest is the rich documentation on mausoleums and memorials designed by numerous prominent American architects, landscape architects, artists, and designers, including Herbert Adams; Robert Aitken; Alexander Archipenko; Charles I. Berg; Carrère & Hastings; Sally Farnham; Beatrix Farrand; Daniel Chester French; C. P. H. Gilbert; Richard Morris Hunt; Hunt & Hunt; Anna Hyatt Huntington; Edwin Lutyens; McKim, Mead, & White; the Olmsted Brothers; Peabody & Stern; the Piccirilli brothers; Charles A. Platt; John Russell Pope; James Renwick; James Gamble Rogers; Ellen Biddle Shipman; Tiffany Studios; Trowbridge & Livingston; Gilbert Stanley Underwood; Warren & Wetmore; Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; and York & Saywer.
Additionally, the collection also includes documents related to memorials for many of the prominent figures in jazz, theater, literature, business, and politics who are buried on the cemetery's 400 acres. These include Herman Armour; the Belmont family; Nellie Bly; Vernon and Irene Castle; George M. Cohan; Celia Cruz; Miles Davis; Charles Delmonico; Duke Ellington; Jay Gould; W. C. Handy; Coleman Hawkins; Victor Herbert; Milt Jackson; the Juilliard family; King Oliver; Samuel Kress; Fritz Kreisler; Fiorello LaGuardia; R. H. Macy; Herman Melville; Robert Moses; J. C. Penney; Joseph Pulitzer; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; the Straus family; Madame C. J. Walker; Bert Williams; the Whitney family; and the Woolworth family.
Arrangement
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Columbia University is providing access to the materials in the Library's collections solely for noncommercial educational and research purposes. The unauthorized use, including, but not limited to, publication of the materials without the prior written permission of Columbia University is strictly prohibited. All inquiries regarding permission to publish should be submitted in writing to the Director, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. In addition to permission from Columbia University, permission of the copyright owner (if not Columbia University) and/or any holder of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights) may also be required for reproduction, publication, distributions, and other uses. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of any item and securing any necessary permissions rests with the persons desiring to publish the item. Columbia University makes no warranties as to the accuracy of the materials or their fitness for a particular purpose.
Preferred Citation
Woodlawn Cemetery records. Located in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Related Archival Materials
Associated Materials--The individual records and papers of many of the architects and firms that are represented in the Woodlawn records are also held by the Department of Drawings & Archives. Records for Woodlawn Cemetery may be found in the Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company/George Collins architectural records and drawings, the Warren & Wetmore architectural records and papers, and the Kahn and Jacobs architectural records and papers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Gift of Woodlawn Cemetery. Accession number--2006.009.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Biographical / Historical
Woodlawn Cemetery was founded in 1863 in the Bronx, New York, and today maintains one of the largest assemblages of above-ground mausolea in North America. Many notable figures in the worlds of commerce, literature, music, and politics are buried there.
Subject Headings
The subject headings listed below are found in this collection. Links below allow searches for other collections at Columbia University, through
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| Architectural drawings -- American |
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| blueprints (reprographic copies) |
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| Adams and Manning |
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| Adler's Monument and Granite Works |
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| Aitken, Robert, 1878-1949 |
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| Albro, Lewis Colt, 1876-1924 |
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| American Monument Corp |
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| American Necropolis Monument Co |
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| Archipenko, Alexander, 1887-1964 |
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| Benisch Bros |
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| Berg, Charles I., 1856-1926 |
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| Bermel, Joseph |
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| Birge, Charles E., 1871-1942 |
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| Blake, Theodore E. |
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| Bleser, August |
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| Bossom, Alfred C., 1881-1965 |
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| Bosworth & Holden |
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| Bosworth, Welles, 1869-1966 |
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| Buchman & Fox |
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| C. E. Tayntor & Co |
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| C. E. Tayntor Granite Company |
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| Cardo Bros. & Co |
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| Cardo, Thomas G |
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| Carrère & Hastings |
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| Caterson, Robert |
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| Clum, W. Edmon |
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| Cruikshank & Fraser |
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| D'Oench & Yost |
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| Darrach, James M. Aerston, 1874-1912 |
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| Davis Granite Co |
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| Davis, McGrath, & Kiessling |
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| Deacy, William Henry |
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| Delano & Aldrich |
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| Dodds Granite Co |
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| Dominick De Nigris Inc |
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| Doolittle, Judson A., 1878-1940 |
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| Eggers & Higgins |
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| Elliot Monument Company |
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| Farnham, Sally James, 1869-1943 |
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| Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959 |
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| Farrington, Gould & Hoagland |
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| Fasolino Monuments Inc |
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| Ficken, H. Edwards |
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| Ford, Stewart & Oliver |
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| French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931 |
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| Geiffert, Alfred, 1890-1957 |
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| General Bronze Corporation |
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| Geo. Brown & Co |
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| George B. Gardner & Son |
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| Gilbert, C. P. H. (Charles Pierrepont H.), 1861-1952 |
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| H. K. Keller Company |
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| H. K. Peacock Memorials, inc |
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| Harrison Granite Co |
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| Hausle, Frank |
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| Havender's Monumental Works |
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| Havender, Joseph |
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| Haveyer, Keith M |
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| Heins & LaFarge |
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| Hoffman & Prochazka |
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| Hoffman, F. Burrall (Francis Burrall), 1882-1980 |
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| Hooper, Parker Morse, 1877- |
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| Howells, John Mead, 1868-1959 |
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| Hull, Washington |
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| Hunt & Hunt |
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| Hunt, Richard Morris, 1827-1895 |
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| Huntington, Anna Hyatt, 1876-1973 |
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| Inglis, James |
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| J. & R. Lamb Studios |
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| J.F. Manning Co., inc |
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| J.L. Wegenaar Co., inc |
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| John M. Gessler's Sons |
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| Lavery Granite Co., inc |
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| Lazzari & Barton Co |
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| Leland & Hall Co |
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| Levison, J. J (Jacob Joshua), 1881-1961 |
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| Lewis, Colt, Abro |
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| Little & O'Connor |
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| Lord & Hewlett |
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| Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 |
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| Manhattan Monument Co |
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| Marc Eidlitz & Son |
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| Marcotrigiano, Nicholas |
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| Mayers, Murray & Phillip |
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| Mayers, Murray and Phillip, Bertram G. Goodhue Associates |
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| McDonnell & Sons |
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| McKim, Mead & White |
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| McNeel Marble Company (Marietta, Ga.) |
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| Mead, George L |
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| Milne & Chalmers, inc |
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| Mink & Eagers |
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| Moran, William Edgar |
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| Mosel, Joseph E |
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| Necarsulmer & Lehlbach |
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| Necarsulmer, Edward |
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| New England Granite Works |
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| Olmsted Brothers |
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| Partridge, William Ordway, 1861-1930 |
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| Peabody & Stearns (Boston, Mass.) |
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| Peabody, Wilson & Brown |
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| Peacock Memorial Studios |
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| Peacock Memorials |
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| Phillips, R. Stenner |
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| Piccirilli Brothers |
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| Platt, Charles A (Charles Adams), 1861-1933 |
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| Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937 |
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| Presbrey-Coykendall Co |
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| Presbrey-Leland, Inc. (New York, N.Y.) |
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| Procházka, Ferdinand |
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| Putnam & Cox |
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| R. Guastavino Company |
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| Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen |
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| Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker |
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| Renwick, James, 1818-1895 |
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| Robert Catella & Co |
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| Rogers, James Gamble |
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| Ruddy, Stephen A |
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| Schoen, Eugene |
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| Shipman, Ellen, 1869-1950 |
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| Shire, Edward I |
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| Smith, Frederick L |
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| Smith, William Neil |
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| Stone, Gould, & Co |
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| Stone, Gould, & Farrington, inc |
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| Swartwout, R. E (Robert Egerton) |
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| Taylor and Levi, Architects |
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| Tedeschi & Tedeschi Co |
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| Thomas Hastings and Theodore S. Blake |
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| Tiffany Studios (New York, N.Y.) |
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| Trowbridge & Livingston |
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| Tuthill, William Burnet, 1855-1929 |
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| Underwood, Gilbert Stanley |
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| Vitale, Ferruccio, 1875-1933 |
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| Walker & Gillette |
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| Ward, J. Robertson |
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| Warren & Wetmore |
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| Wegenaar, J. L |
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| Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 1875-1942 |
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| Wills, Charles T |
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| Woodlawn Cemetery (New York, N.Y.) |
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| York & Sawyer |
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| Zimmermann, Marie, 1879-1972 |
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| Place |
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| Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc |
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| New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc |
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| Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans |
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| Burial -- Economic aspects -- United States |
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| Burial -- Social aspects -- United States |
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| Burial laws -- United States |
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| Celebrities -- United States |
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| Cemeteries -- Conservation and restoration -- New York (State) -- New York |
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| Cemeteries -- New York (State) -- New York -- History |
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| Civil engineering -- New York (State) -- New York |
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| Cremation -- United States |
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| Crematories |
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| Death -- Social aspects -- United States |
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| Guastavino vaults |
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| Landscape architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- Designs and plans |
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| Marble |
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| Mausoleums |
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| Sepulchral monuments -- New York (State) -- New York |
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