Grave Stone Collection (#26)

ARIZONA: TOMBSTONE, 1883. Wood engraving, 1883

CONSTANTINOPLE, 1833. View of the city from Pera. Steel engraving, English, 1833

TOMBSTONE SHERIFF, 1883. The sheriff and his constituents of Tombstone, Arizona. Wood engraving

CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH, 1850. Seeing the Elephant. Popular engraved lettersheet depicting scenes of life during the California Gold Rush, published at San Francisco, California, c1850

Green Alga (Trentepohlia aurea) orange filamentous alga growing on old gravestone in churchyard, Culbone, Exmoor, Somerset, England, march

View of church with Daffodils (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) flowering amongst gravestones in churchyard, smallest parish church in England, Culbone Church, Culbone, Exmoor N.P. Somerset, England, march

Lichen (Caloplaca flavescens) and other lichen species, growing on old gravestone in churchyard, Stoke Pero Church, Stoke Pero, Exmoor, Somerset, England, march

Ancient cross in winter, Whitchurch Common, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Allied War Cemetery, Soudha Bay, Akrotiri Peninsula, Chania region, Crete, Greek Islands, Greece, Europe

Kovaci War Cemetery with gravestone of first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija Izetbegovic, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe

Stecak necropolis of Radimlja, located near Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe

Kovaci War Cemetery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe

The home above

Grave of Joseph Conrad
The Grave of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish Novelist in Canterbury City Cemetery. Date: circa 1925

St Patricks Grave, Downpatrick, Co. Down, Northern Ireland Date: 1920s

Prayer at Tomb of local Saint - Bosnia
Prayers at the Tomb of the local Saint - Bosnia and Herzegovina Date: 1908

Kingsleys Gravestone
The simple white graveside cross of English author CHARLES KINGSLEY, with passion flowers and Latin inscription : We have, we loved and we will love. Date: 1819 - 1875

Selcuk, Turkey - Ruins - The Tomb of St Luke
Selcuk, Turkey (Ancient Ephesus) - Ruins - The Tomb of St Luke Date: circa 1902

NEW ORLEANS: CEMETERY. Burial vaults in St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana. Photographed c1901

View of graveyard and church with Norman round-tower, largest Norman round-tower in country, St. Marys Church, Wortham, Suffolk, England, october

Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) sapling, growing beside headstones in church graveyard, St. Andrews Church, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England, october

Common Yew (Taxus baccata) Millenium Yew, habit, planted in churchyard, St. Georges Church, Arreton, Isle of Wight, England, june

Long grass and wildflowers growing amongst headstones in churchyard conservation area, St. Marys Church, Rickinghall Inferior, Suffolk, England, may

Headstones in church graveyard, with fallen leaves on grass, St. Marys Church, Mendlesham, Suffolk, England, november

Headstones in snow covered church graveyard, St. Marys Church, Bacton, Suffolk, England, november

View of graveyard and church, St. Andrews Church, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England, october

Memorial cross in graveyard, church with Norman round-tower, St. Marys Church, Rickinghall Inferior, Suffolk, England, may

Ivy (Hedera helix) growing on headstone in church graveyard, St. Andrews Church, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England, october

Medieval church and graveyard in snow, St. Marys Church, Haughley, Suffolk, England, november

Early Medieval monastic building and graveyard, Round Tower, Glendalough Monastic Site, Wicklow Way Walking Route, Glendalough Valley, Wicklow Mountains N.P. County Wicklow, Ireland, november

Tomb in graveyard of 15th century late medieval church, copper clad roof with fleche, St. Edmund's Church, Southwold, Suffolk, England, october

Wild Daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) flowering mass, growing in old churchyard with lichen covered gravestone, Holwell, North Dorset, England, march

Stones marking burial site, Wassu Stone Circles, Gambia, january

Cemetery in coastal city, Tangier, Morocco, april

Skull carved on headstone in church graveyard, St. Andrew's Church, Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, England, october

Tombstone, bearing the inscription " Rest in Peace" (R.I.P.)

DYNAMIC AMERICA, 1889. Sabbatarian Obstructionists. Uncle Sam: Get out of the way, boys
DYNAMIC AMERICA, 1889. Sabbatarian Obstructionists. Uncle Sam: " Get out of the way, boys! This here nation can t stop one day in the week to please anybody." American lithograph cartoon by

ORPHANS AT GRAVE, c1889. A posed studio portrait of three young girls with the ghost of their mother standing before her grave. Stereograph, c1889

Tomb of Adele Hugo, wife of famous French writer Victor Hugo, in a graveyard at Villequier, Normandy, France, Europe

Mormon Trail pioneer grave by the transcontinental railroad, Nebraska
Grave of Mormon Trail pioneer Rebecca Winters, next to the transcontinental railroad tracks, Nebraska (grave has since been moved). Photograph

Mormon Trail pioneer grave, Nebraska
Grave of Mormon Trail pioneer Rebecca Winters, who died of cholera in Nebraska in 1852, since reburied nearby. Photograph

HOUS2A-00123
African-American veteran giving children a history lesson on Decoration Day, 1881. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Old gravestone in front of granite rocks in the Andringitra National Park, Madagascar, Africa

Spooky church gravestone
An amazingly atmospheric and eery photograph of a hillside headstone taken through the mist and backlit by the sun, at the Church of St. Justin, Roseland, Truro, Cornwall

Grave of President Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, United States of America, North America

English Cemetery - Uskudar (Scutari)
The English Cemetery at Scutari (Uskudar)

Tombland Alley, Norwich, Norfolk, a quaint corner, incorporating part of Augustine Stewarts House. He was Deputy Mayor during Ketts Rebellion (1549), later Mayor

Scarborough / Church 1813
Scarborough, Yorkshire: a couple stop to read an inscription on a gravestone at the church - Anne Bronte would later be buried here

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