Behind the Tombstones
- Publication
- Wilmette Life, 2 Nov 2006, p. 131, 132, , 133
Description
- Creator
- John Roszkowski
- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Articles
- Photographs
- Description
- Full article available from Wilmette Public Library
- Notes
- Art and history is revealed at older cemeteries of Chicago and suburbs. Photographs include the Haymarket Martyrs Monument and a druid figure at the Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park; a child's grave, and Lulu Fellows statue at Rosehill Cemetery; Angel statue at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Evanston; Mausoleum of Potter Palmer and his wife, Bertha Honore at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago; Father Edward J. Vattman monument at Fort Sheridan Post Cemetery in Highland Park; A gravesite from 1869 at Evergreen Cemetery in Barrington; Grave from Jewish Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park; Limestone trees at Boheomian National Cemetery in Chicago; Bishops' Mausoleum at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside
Comments by Helen Sclair, aka "Cemetery Lady" - Date of Publication
- 2 Nov 2006
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Sclair, Helen
- Local identifier
- Wilmette.News.285457
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Illinois, United States
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