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Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
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Chicago, the Garden city. Its magnificent parks, boulevards and cemeteries. Together with other descriptive views and sketches
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Caption: "Graceland.--Monument of Frederick and Catharine Wacker." From text: "Before the close of the year 1893 the number of the silent inhabitants of the necropolis Graceland will have reached 60,000. This cemetery is justly famed as one of the finest among Chicago's cities of the dead, and occupies a similar rank here as does Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Spring Grove in Cincinnati, Forest Hill or Mount Auburn in Boston. Among the 500 cemeteries in this country there is but a small number that can compare with Graceland in point of beauty of landscape and the splendor of its monuments."
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http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogardencit00simo#page/112/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogardencit00simo
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Coverage-Spatial
Uptown (Chicago, Ill.)
Coverage-Temporal
Author of the Book
Simon, Andreas
Title Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
Description Caption: "Graceland.--Monument of Frederick and Catharine Wacker." From text: "Before the close of the year 1893 the number of the silent inhabitants of the necropolis Graceland will have reached 60,000. This cemetery is justly famed as one of the finest among Chicago's cities of the dead, and occupies a similar rank here as does Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Spring Grove in Cincinnati, Forest Hill or Mount Auburn in Boston. Among the 500 cemeteries in this country there is but a small number that can compare with Graceland in point of beauty of landscape and the splendor of its monuments."
Type Photographs
File Name chicagogardencit00simo_raw_0117.jp2
Source Page http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogardencit00simo#page/112/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogardencit00simo
Repository University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Coverage-Spatial Uptown (Chicago, Ill.)
Coverage-Temporal 1890-1899
Rights 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
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