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Association for Gravestone Studies Book CollectionFinding AidFinding aid prepared by Dex Haven.2010
Administrative InformationAcquired from Association for Gravestone Studies, June 2010. Related MaterialPart of the Association for Gravestone Studies Collections. See also the AGS Cemetery Inscriptions Collection (MS ), which contains informally published and unpublished works on inscriptions. Processed by Dex Haven, June 2010. Preferred CitationCite as: Association for Gravestone Studies Book Collection. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection is open for research. Return to the Table of Contents Historical NoteFounded in 1977, the Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) is an international organization dedicated to furthering the study and preservation of gravestones. Based in Greenfield, Mass., the Association promotes the study of gravestones from historical and artistic perspectives. To raise public awareness about the significance of historic gravemarkers and the issues surrounding their preservation, the AGS sponsors conferences and workshops, publishes both a quarterly newsletter and annual journal, Markers, and has built an archive of collections documenting gravestones and the memorial industry. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionThe AGS Books Collection contains scarce, out of print, and rare printed works on cemeteries and graveyards, epitaphs and inscriptions, and gravemarkers, with an emphasis on North America. Within this diverse assemblage are guides and surveys for individual cemeteries, manuals on gravemarker repair and restoration, studies of gravestone art and iconography, and some works on local history. The collection is divided into two series: Series 1 (Monographs and Offprints) and Series 2 (Theses and Dissertations). Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents Series 1. Monographs and Offprints 1812-2005Occident and the Orient in the Art of the Seventh Century, Part III, Merovingian Empire 1947Heritage Cemeteries in British Columbia 1985Address to Members and Friends of Methodist Episcopal ChurchLithopinion 39Commemorative Art 3 copiesAmerican Life Collector, Funerary Art No. 10Memorial Symbolism, Epitaphs and Design Types 1947Those Angel Faces 1986Legacy at Risk: Connecticut's Outdoor Sculpture 1996Curious Epitaphs 1899Landscapes of Memories: A Guide for Conserving Historic Cemeteries, Repairing Tombstones 1997General Laws Relating to Corporations, (Massachusetts) 1963Grave Concerns: A Preservation Manual for Historic Cemeteries in Arkansas 2000Side: A Guide to the Ancient City and Museum 1986150th Anniversary of the General Association of Connecticut Congregational ChurchesMemorialist 1949English Mural Monuments and Tombstones 1916"Placing the Dead: Burial Sites in Early Boston and Beyond," Modulus 17, University of Virginia Architectural Review 1984Historical Archaeology at the Hudson Poor Farm Cemetery 1993Puritan Gravestone Art 1977Puritan Gravestone Art II 1978New England Historical ArchaeologyBurying Place of Governor Arnold 1960Tombstone Tales 2000Annual Report of the Cemetery Department, City of Boston 1900-1901Our Silent Neighbors 1991Marble Border of Western New England 1885History of the Granite Industry of New England, vol. 1 and 2 1913Novita' Bibliografiche Antichita Greca E Romana 1988Memorials of the Dead in Boston 1853Lexington Epitaphs 1905Bruton Parish Churchyard: A Guide with Map 1976Churchyards 1980Churchyards of Trinity Parish (N.Y.) 1969Swan Point Cemetery: A Centennial History 2003New England's Ghostly Haunts 1983Stone Records of Groton, Connecticut 1963Rutintone article -Conn. Hist. Vol. 35, No. 1 1994 SpringHistoric Resource Surveys and the Internet 1998Discovering Churchyards 1982Church Hymnal :Protestant Episcopal ChurchSigns and Symbols of Primordial ManFew of Our Friends in the Amador County Cemeteries 1994Picta Poesis 1960Quarter century of Cremation in North America 1901Gravestone Inscriptions: Granary Burying Ground, BostonNew Selection of Hymns 1812Archive 2: 15th and 16th Century Sculpture in Italy: Part 1 Rome 1977Archive 2: 15th and 16th Century Sculpture in Italy: Part 2 Rome 1977Archive 4: Late 18th and 19th Century Sculpture in the British Isles: Part 3 NorthamptonshireImmigrants and Their Cemetery: Story of Prospect Hill (D.C.) 1995Permanent Parisians 1986God's Acre 1984Renascence: The Sculptured Tombs of the Fifteenth Century in Rome 1910Portraits Etched in Stone: Early Jewish Settlers 1682-1831 1952Rubbing Off History 1975Old Tombstones and Unusual Cemeteries in Columbia County, N.Y .,Vol. 1 Part 1 1973Ohio County Cemeteries, Indiana, rev. ed. 1990Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts (gift of Jim Jewell) 1894From Quarry to Graveyard: A Schematic Reconstruction of Early New England Gravestone-Carving Technology"Silent Art of our Past," American Art Review 1976 Nov.-Dec.Funny Epitaphs 1902Comemoral: The Cemetery of the Future 1954Old Bohemian and Moravian Jewish Cemeteries 1991Behold and See, As You Pass By: Epitaphs in Old Cemetery, First Presbyterian Church of Sparta, 1727-1924 1976La Cathedrale Saint-Denis (in French)Essex Institute Historical Collections 1973Essex Institute Historical Collections 1975Graveyard Inventory Guide 1990 2 copiesReplicas, Reproductions and AdaptationsReligious Trends in English Poetry, Vol. 1: 1700-1740 1939Discovering Heraldry 1980One Hundred and Thirtieth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Bristol Valley, 1799-1929 1929Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them 1927Feasibility Study: Preservation, Restoration and Re-habilitation St. Paul's Cemetery, Halifax, N.S.Nunhead Cemetery: An Illustrated Guide 1988Journals from the Gloucester Experiment 3 copiesMapping and Documenting CemeteriesMourning Glory: A Story of Lowell Cemetery (Massachusetts), Revised Edition 2003Historical Data: Cities and Towns in Massachusetts, 1975 1975Fairmount and Historic Colorado 1976Lessons from the Dead 1979New York is a Rubber's Paradise 1984Search for Henry Cross 1966Memorial Design 1928GravetteChurch and Tombstone Research 1987Genealogical SeminarHempstead Diary (gravestone portions)John's Island Presbyterian Church Cemetery Inscriptions 1993Sources of Memorial Ornamentation 1924Hymnal: Protestant Episcopal ChurchHymns for Universalist Denomination 1857"Martha's Vineyard Gravestones from 1688 to 1804," The Dukes County Intelligencer 1979 Feb.Japanese Book(about Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge Massachusetts)Der Alte Prager JudenfriedhofMemento Mori: Transcription of Tombstones, Ipswich, Massachusetts 1935Green Mount Cemetery: 100th Anniversary, 1838-1938 1938Guide to Abney Park Cemetery, London Borough of Hackney 1984Cemetery Survey Glastonbury Model and other cemetery information 1984Cemeteries in the Town of Austerlitz, NY 1985Michigan Historic Cemetery Preservation Manual (MI SHIPO) 2004Lusts of the Prairie Preachers 1996A Guide to Manuscripts and Archives in Whitney Library of New Haven Colony Hist. Soc. 1988Folk Art in Hungarian Cemeteries 1983Towns of the Nashaway Plantation (Massachusetts)History of Signboards 1866Gravestone Inscriptions: Lee, Massachusetts, all extant 1826-1850 1910"The Southern Cemetery," The Southern Quarterly 1993 WinterOrdinary Heroes: Story of Shaftsbury, with a Chapter on the Vermont Ghost Town of Glastenbury 1978"Putting the Past in Place," Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society 44 1985Old Prague Jewish Cemetery 1960Women in Mourning 1985Burials and Burial Places in Dartmouth, Massachusetts 1997Stone and the Spirit: Guide to Ancient Burying Ground, Wethersfield Village Cemetery. 1987Guide to Rescuing Pioneer Gravestones 1989Comic Epitaphs 1957Memoirs of the Dead and Tomb's Remembrancer 1989Historic Properties Survey ManualVictorian Undertaker 1996Mortuary Record from the Gravestones in the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Mass. 1898Graveyards of North Kingstown, R.I. 1992Epitaphs in the Only Stephentown on Earth 1990Cross and the Shamrock: Art and History of St. Patrick Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts 1997Into the Silent Land: Historic Cemeteries and Graveyards in Ontario 2003Weep Not For MeGrabschriftenHistoric Cemeteries: Where Stones Talk (lesson plan for 3-4 grade)Tombstone Tales from Ontario Cemeteries 2000Gravestone Art in Rockland County, New York 1991Connecticut Eighteenth Century Epitaphs 1999Psychology of Puritan Symbolism 1974Two Hundred Years of Memorialization 1976Segregation in Death: Gettysburg's Lincoln Cemetery 2001"Lest We Forget" 1993Bath Town Guidebook (North Carolina) 1970sMaterial History Bulletin 23 1986 SpringGuide to the Maintenance of Outdoor Sculpture 1995Early American Stone Sculpture 1981History of Church Street Graveyard, Mobile, Alabama 1963Rites of Passage in America 1992New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol CXXXII 1978 Apr.Story of Crown Hill (Indiana) 1928Last Miles of the Way: African-American Homegoing Traditions 1989Indiana Stonecarver: Story of T. R. Reding 1984Book of Epitaphs, Amusing, Curious, and Quaint 1873Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana: Treasures of Jewish Booklore 1991Tales of the Old Dutch Graveyard: A Walking Tour, N. Tarrytown, NY 1984Images of Love and Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art 1976Haven in the Heart of the City: The History of Lakewood Cemetery 1992Meet Me in Heaven 2004Symbols in Stone 1982Meaning in the Visual Arts 1955Living Churchyard 1989Pioneers Resting in Historic Lindenwood 1973Last Laugh 1968Art of Ecstasy: Teresa, Bernini, and Crashaw 1970Chronicles of the Tombs: A Select Collection of Epitaphs 1968History of Grafton, Vermont, 1754-1985 1975Cemetery Potpourri: A Cemetery Guide 1997Time to Mourn: Expressions of Grief in Nineteenth Century America 1980Ancient Burying-Grounds of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut 1917Sojourn in Savannah 1980Forest Lawn Cemetery: Buffalo History Preserved 1996Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, Conn. 1889Experiencing Albany 1986Glendaloch and Its Ruins: A Story and a GuideL.A. In Installments: Forest Lawn 1979Court Transcription of a lawsuit on behalf of a man killed in a quarry accidentQuaint Epitaphs 1900Old North Burying Ground, Uphan's Corner, Dorchester, Massachusetts 1984Early Brownville and Her Slate Quarries 1987Eastbury Cemetery: An Outdoor Museum 1988Commemorative Art: A Collection of Distinguished MemorialsIconography of Christian Art: Vol. 1 1971Proceedings of the Rockbridge Historical Society (Lexington, Virginia), vol. IXGerman Genealogical ResearchStars of Hollywood Forever 2001Celebrating a Century of Granite Art 1989Sharon Massachusetts, a History 1976Bills of Mortality, 1810-1849, City of Boston 1810-1849Epitaphs found in Pompey Cemeteries, NY 1995Directory for Research on the Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts 1983Harrison Horror 1956Idealism and Realism 1954Epitaphs in the Old Burial Place, Dedham, Mass. 1986Bury Me Deep: Burial Places Past and Present In and Nearby Washington, D.C. 2009Old Burying Grounds within Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks 1992Westerly Granite (R.I)Spirit World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of Afro-American New Orleans 1984Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey, Vol II MonumentsLa Stylistique Ornementale dans la Sculpture Romane 1931Pillars of the Past: Zion Episcopal Church, Avon, New York 1992Pillars of the Past: At Rest at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park 2002Women Facing Loss 1996Christian Catacombs in Rome 1964That Unknown Country 1888Cave Hill CemeteryLoudon Park: Celebrating 125 Years 1979Had Me Made: A Study of the Grave Memorials of Co. Sligo from c. 1650 to the Present 2005Building the Backcountry: An Architectural History of Davidson County, North Carolina 1987Life How Short, Eternity How Long 1978Tombstone Outlaw Album 1984Milton Cemetery: A Catalog of the Proprietors of Lots 1883Epitaphs: A Unique Collection of Post Mortem Comment, Obituary Wit, and Quaint and Gruesome FancyBurying Grounds of Sharon, Connecticut, Amenia and North East New York 1903Price List of Monumental Marble 1927 March 10Vermont Marble Memorials, Book SIn Search of Gravestones Old and Curious 1896Graven Images: Substitutes for True Morality 1957Iron Spirits 1982Buried in Hampstead: A Survey of Monuments at Saint John-at-Hampstead 1986Great River: Art and Society of the Connecticut Valley, 1635-1820 1985Gatherings from Grave Yards particularly those of London 1839Stories on Stone: A Book of American Epitaphs 1954Tombstone Poetry and Scriptural Quotations (photocopy in notebook) 1895Old Burying Ground of Ancient Westbury and Present Watertown 1938Roster of Valor: The Titanic-Halifax Legacy 1984Ancient Funeral Monuments - Britain, Ireland 1979Memento Mori: Gravestones of Early Long Island , 1680-1810 1983Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum (Chicago)History of Cemetery Sculpture, Vol. 1 1938Last Word 1973 2 copiesUnderstanding Scottish Graveyards 1985Stones: 18th Century Scottish Gravestones 1978American Broadside Verse 1974Folk Art in Stone: Southwest Virginia 1970Series 2. Theses and Dissertations 1954-2005Here Lyes Buried. BA thesis. 1971Investigation into the Validity of a Fundamental Assumption of Archaeology Utilizing Data from New England Gravestones. MA thesis. Brown Univ., Providence, RI. 1968Toward Memory and Mourning: A Study of Changing Attitudes Towards Death Between 1750 and 1850 as Revealed by Gravestones of the New Hampshire Merrimac River Valley, Mourning Pictures and Representative. Dissertation. George Washington University. 1977Society, Revolution and the Symbolic Uses of the Dead: An Historical Ethnography of the Massachusetts Near Frontier, 1730-1820. Dissertation. Ann Arbor, MI. 1982On the Memorial Art of Tidewater Virginia 1650-1775. MA thesis. Univ. of Delaware. 1969The Function of Gravestones Within Catholic Soteriology: Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery, 1888-1910. BA thesis. Reed College, Portland, OR. 2005Cemeteries in California and Nevada: A Western Thanatopsis. MA thesis. Sonoma State University. 1989Life and Death in Colonial New England. Thesis. Harvard University, Cambridge MA. 1972From Quarry to Graveyard: A Schematic Reconstruction of Early New England Gravestone Carving Technology. BA thesis. UMass Amherst 1972The Preservation and Repair of Cast Zinc Grave Markers. Terminal project for MS degree in Historic Preservation. Univ. of Oregon. 2002Puritans, Yankees and Gravestones: A Linguistic Analysis of New England Gravestone Inscriptions. MA thesis. Brown Univ., Providence, RI. 1989Massachusetts Gravestones: A Linguistic Analysis of New England Gravestone Inscriptions. MA thesis. Brown Univ., Providence, RI. 1989A Method of Procuring Funds for the Restoration and Preservation of a Pioneer Cemetery. Senior Research Project, George Fox College, Newberg, OR. 1993Each in His Own Narrow Cell Forever Laid: An Investigation into the Evolution of the American Cemetery within the Central Connecticut Region. MS thesis. Central CT State Univ. 1995Gravestone Design Motifs of Portage Co., Ohio 1800-1899. Honors thesis. Kent State. 1992Religious Contrasts in Mortuary Behavior and Cultural Idealogy of Nineteenth-Century Cemeteries in St. Augustine, Florida. Th/Honors Program Univ. of North Florida. 2003A Test of Paleodemographic Models. Major Paper. Oregon State University at Corvallis, OR. 1977Graveyard at Old Bennington, VT, and Gravestones of Zerubabel Collins. (Appendix-gravestones before 1810 in Bennington and Shaftsbury). BA thesis. Williams College. 1973Some Customary Practices of Rural Life 1870-1913. Dissertation. Univ of Pittsburgh. 1954St. Marys Cemetery: A Cultural Reflection of Brussels, Illinois. MS thesis Southern Illinois State University at Edwardsville. 1997System for the Collection and Retrieval of Gravestone Data and Survey of Gravestones within 5 mile Radius of Cooperstown, NY, from their Earliest Date to 1815. MA thesis. SUNY, Oneonta, NY. 1976Coffins and Caskets: Their Contribution to the Archeological Record. MA thesis. Univ. of Idaho Grad School. 1984Colonial Long Island Gravestones and Trade Networks. MA thesis. SUNY, Stoney Brook, NY. 1978Aspects of New England Gravestone Carving 1668-1815. BA thesis. Trinity College, Hartford, CT. 1973Study of the Gravestones of Monmouth Co., NJ, 1716-1835. Reflections of the Life Style. Independent Research Project in Anthropology. (Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ.) 1979Reflections of Change: Death and Cemeteries in the Boonslick Region of Missouri. 2 vols. Dissertation. Univ. Missouri, Columbia, MO. 1989Historical and Aesthetic Study of Early New England Gravestones. BA thesis. Wesleyan. 1962Anglicizing an American Colony: The Transformation of Provincial Massachusetts. Dissertation/Ph.D. Yale University. 1966Burial Garments in Central New York, 1840-1920. MA thesis. Univ. of Idaho, 1990Using Cemeteries to Teach the Five Themes of Geography. Major Paper/MS. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois. 2001Comparing and Interpreting the Early Dutch and English Gravemarkers of New Yorks Lower Hudson Region. MA thesis in Archaeology and Heritage. Univ. of Leicester. 2005Tree-Stump Tombstones: The Influence of Traditional Cultural Values on Rustic Funerary Art in Indiana in the 1890s. Dissertation. Indiana Univ 1992Role of Death as Reflected in the Art and Folkways of the Northeast in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. MA thesis. SUNY. 1965Public Landscapes and American Urban Culture 1800-1870. Chapter II of dissertation Columbia, 1979American Family Memorial Imagery, the Photograph, and the Search for Immortality. Th/MFA. Wesleyan Univ. 1963Relict, Consort, Wife: The Use of Connecticut River Valley Gravestones to Understand Concepts of Gender with Late 18th and Early 19th Century. Division III Exam. Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. 1995Spacial and Material Aspects of Culture: Ethnicity and Ideology in Long Island Gravestones, 1670-1820. Dissertation SUNY Stony Brook, NY. 1987Colonial Gravestones of Western Connecticut. Thesis (a), Index (b). MA thesis. Univ. of Ill. 1971Memorial Art in North American Churches, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Some Sources, Styles and Implications. MA thesis. Univ. of Del. 1968Middlesex Co., NJ, Gravestones 1698-1799: Shadows of a Changing Culture. MA thesis. William and Mary. 1991Skyscrapers and Sepulchers: A Historic Ethnography of New Jerseys Terra Cotta Industry. Dissertation, Univ. Pennsylvania 1997A Geographic Analysis of the College Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Illinois. MS thesis, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL. 1995 |
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