Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston. Martin Milmore Memorial. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston. Martin Milmore Memorial. brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston. Martin Milmore Memorial.
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Forest Hills Cemetery, opened in 1848 in Jamaica Plain, was one of the rural cemeteries that shaped how Americans thought about burial grounds as parkland, and this view records the memorial to Martin Milmore, the Irish-born sculptor who worked in Boston and made several Civil War monuments. The photograph comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which documented American towns, landscapes and monuments from about the 1890s into the 1920s for travel sales and publication. The caption card does not give a date, so the print is best read as a snapshot of how a sculptor's grave was presented to visitors of that era.
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Subjects | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 11944. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI--DEATH; Monuments--Massachusetts; Death--Tombs; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,213 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133803 |
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