Must-Have Cemetery Books

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Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography
Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography 4.14 avg rating — 821 ratings
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Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone
Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone 4.50 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Necropolis: London and Its Dead
Necropolis: London and Its Dead 3.78 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses 4.56 avg rating — 511 ratings
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The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
The American Resting Place: 400 Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds 3.86 avg rating — 269 ratings
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The Hour of Our Death
The Hour of Our Death 4.15 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial
Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial 3.62 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla
Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla 4.42 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Beautiful Death: Art of the Cemetery
Beautiful Death: Art of the Cemetery 4.10 avg rating — 242 ratings
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The Victorian Celebration of Death
The Victorian Celebration of Death 3.76 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Elysium: A Gathering of Souls : New Orleans Cemeteries
Elysium: A Gathering of Souls : New Orleans Cemeteries 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings
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San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History
San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History (Creating the North American Landscape)
The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History (Creating the North American Landscape) 3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Country Churchyards
Country Churchyards 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartland
Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartland 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings
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London's Cemeteries
London's Cemeteries 3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Arlington Cemetery: A Nation's Story Carved in Stone
Arlington Cemetery: A Nation's Story Carved in Stone 4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650–1815
Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650–1815 4.42 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Victorian Cemetery
The Victorian Cemetery 3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries
Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Historic Bonaventure Cemetery: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society
Historic Bonaventure Cemetery: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society 4.10 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Your Guide to Cemetery Research
Your Guide to Cemetery Research 4.17 avg rating — 136 ratings
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New Orleans Cemeteries: Life in the Cities of the Dead
New Orleans Cemeteries: Life in the Cities of the Dead 4.14 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians
The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians 4.05 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Memento Mori: Churches and Churchyards of England
Memento Mori: Churches and Churchyards of England 4.36 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Stairway to Heaven: The Final Resting Places of Rock's Legends
Stairway to Heaven: The Final Resting Places of Rock's Legends
by: J.D. Reed
3.85 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death 3.78 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Cemeteries (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks)
Cemeteries (Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks) 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Stories in Stone New York: A Field Guide to New York City Area Cemeteries & Their Residents
Stories in Stone New York: A Field Guide to New York City Area Cemeteries & Their Residents 4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Os cemitérios de Lisboa : entre o real e o imaginário
Os cemitérios de Lisboa : entre o real e o imaginário 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Cemeteries and Gravemarkers
Cemeteries and Gravemarkers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and Cemetery Art of the American Sunbelt States
Scoring in Heaven: Gravestones and Cemetery Art of the American Sunbelt States liked it 3.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Cemetery Book: Graveyards, Catacombs and Other Travel Haunts Around the World
The Cemetery Book: Graveyards, Catacombs and Other Travel Haunts Around the World
by: Tom Weil
3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Victorian Undertaker
Victorian Undertaker 3.90 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery
Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery 4.24 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Tombstones: Seventy-Five Famous People and Their Final Resting Places
Tombstones: Seventy-Five Famous People and Their Final Resting Places 3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California
Permanent Californians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of California 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Meet Me At Père Lachaise: a guided tour of Père Lachaise Cemetery
Meet Me At Père Lachaise: a guided tour of Père Lachaise Cemetery 4.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Permanent Italians: An Illustrated, Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of Italy
Permanent Italians: An Illustrated, Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of Italy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites 3.93 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art
Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery 4.27 avg rating — 1,995 ratings
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Cemetery Walk: Journey into the Art, History and Society of the Cemetery and Beyond
Cemetery Walk: Journey into the Art, History and Society of the Cemetery and Beyond 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Famous and Curious Cemeteries: A Pictorial, Historical, and Anecdotal View of American and European Cemeteries and the Famous and Infamous People Who
Famous and Curious Cemeteries: A Pictorial, Historical, and Anecdotal View of American and European Cemeteries and the Famous and Infamous People Who really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Spooky Cemeteries
Spooky Cemeteries 3.77 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Georgia's Confederate Monuments and Cemeteries
Georgia's Confederate Monuments and Cemeteries 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Generals at Rest: The Grave Sites of the 425 Official Confederate Generals
Generals at Rest: The Grave Sites of the 425 Official Confederate Generals 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Forever L.A.: A Field Guide to Los Angeles Area Cemeteries & Their Residents
Forever L.A.: A Field Guide to Los Angeles Area Cemeteries & Their Residents 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Saving Graces
Saving Graces 4.18 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Metairie Cemetery: An Historic Memoir
Metairie Cemetery: An Historic Memoir 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Going Out in Style: The Architecture of Eternity
Going Out in Style: The Architecture of Eternity 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Skulls and Skeletons: Human Bone Collections and Accumulations
Skulls and Skeletons: Human Bone Collections and Accumulations 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy
The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West
Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetery in the West 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Ethnicity and the American Cemetery (Popular Music Series)
Ethnicity and the American Cemetery (Popular Music Series) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series)
Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series) 4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Mausoleums
Mausoleums really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards
A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards 4.25 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
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Etched in Stone: Thoroughbred Memorials
Etched in Stone: Thoroughbred Memorials
by: Lucy Zeh
4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A Graveyard Preservation Primer
A Graveyard Preservation Primer 4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Historic Gravestone Art of Charleston, South Carolina, 1695-1802
Historic Gravestone Art of Charleston, South Carolina, 1695-1802 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery (Great Lakes Books)
Elmwood Endures: History of a Detroit Cemetery (Great Lakes Books) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Forgotten Faces: A Window Into Our Immigrant Past
Forgotten Faces: A Window Into Our Immigrant Past 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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New Orleans: Cemeteries
New Orleans: Cemeteries 4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Monument Builders: Modern Architecture and Death
Monument Builders: Modern Architecture and Death really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Gardens and Graveyards of the Southeastern Seaboard: A Photographic Journey
Gardens and Graveyards of the Southeastern Seaboard: A Photographic Journey 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Protestant Cemetery in Rome: A Guide for Visitors
The Protestant Cemetery in Rome: A Guide for Visitors 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Boneyards: Detroit under Ground
Boneyards: Detroit under Ground 4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Laid to Rest in California: A Guide to the Cemeteries and Graves Sites of the Rich and Famous
Laid to Rest in California: A Guide to the Cemeteries and Graves Sites of the Rich and Famous 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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City of the Dead: A Journey Through St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana
City of the Dead: A Journey Through St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans, Louisiana 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Graven Images: Graphic Motifs of the Jewish Gravestone
Graven Images: Graphic Motifs of the Jewish Gravestone 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Detroit's Mount Elliott Cemetery
Detroit's Mount Elliott Cemetery 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery
Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery
Detroit's Woodmere Cemetery 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Graveyard London: Lost and Forgotten Burial Grounds
Graveyard London: Lost and Forgotten Burial Grounds really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery
Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery 4.57 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Mount Hope America's First Municipal Victorian Cemetery
Mount Hope America's First Municipal Victorian Cemetery 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The architecture of death: The transformation of the cemetery in eighteenth-century Paris
The architecture of death: The transformation of the cemetery in eighteenth-century Paris 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Eternal Prairie: Exploring Rural Cemeteries of the West
Eternal Prairie: Exploring Rural Cemeteries of the West
by: R. Adams
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Hollywood Remains to Be Seen: A Guide to the Movie Stars' Final Homes
Hollywood Remains to Be Seen: A Guide to the Movie Stars' Final Homes 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery: An Illustrated History and Guide
Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery: An Illustrated History and Guide
by: Ren Davis
4.44 avg rating — 27 ratings
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In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life
In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life 3.96 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Burden of Wings
Burden of Wings 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Alguien camina sobre tu tumba: Mis viajes a cementerios
Alguien camina sobre tu tumba: Mis viajes a cementerios 3.92 avg rating — 3,497 ratings
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Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men
Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men 3.71 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Dead Interesting: Stories from the Graveyards of Dublin
Dead Interesting: Stories from the Graveyards of Dublin 4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards
Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive
Beyond the Dark Veil: Post Mortem & Mourning Photography from The Thanatos Archive 4.63 avg rating — 776 ratings
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Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory
Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer
London Cemeteries: An Illustrated Guide and Gazetteer 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Chippiannock Cemetery (Images of America: Illinois)
Chippiannock Cemetery (Images of America: Illinois) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Mad as the Mist and Snow: Exploring Oregon Through Its Cemeteries
Mad as the Mist and Snow: Exploring Oregon Through Its Cemeteries 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Historic Oakland Cemetery
Historic Oakland Cemetery 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Cemitérios, Jazigos e Sepulturas
Cemitérios, Jazigos e Sepulturas 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Bodysnatchers: A History of the Resurrectionists , 1742-1832
Bodysnatchers: A History of the Resurrectionists , 1742-1832 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Dublin Burial Grounds & Graveyards
Dublin Burial Grounds & Graveyards really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Forever Dixie: A Field Guide to Southern Cemeteries & Their Residents
Forever Dixie: A Field Guide to Southern Cemeteries & Their Residents 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Fade to Black: Graveside Memories of Hollywood Greats 1927 – 1950
Fade to Black: Graveside Memories of Hollywood Greats 1927 – 1950 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Gravestone designs; rubbings and photographs from early New York & New Jersey (Dover pictorial archive series)
Gravestone designs; rubbings and photographs from early New York & New Jersey (Dover pictorial archive series) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones
The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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