Showing posts with label Green-Wood Cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green-Wood Cemetery. Show all posts
23 August 2015

NYC #41: Horace Greeley, Green-Wood Cemetery (11), Brooklyn

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'HORACE GREELEY BORN FEBRUARY 3, 1811. DIED NOVEMBER 29, 1872. ––––––––––– FOUNDER OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE...
20 August 2015

NYC #40: Ann Stephens, Green-Wood Cemetery (10), Brooklyn

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Ann Stephens (1813–86) founded the Portland Magazine in Maine, edited The Ladies Companion , and was a writer of poems and dime novels. S...

NYC #37: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Green-Wood Cemetery (7), Brooklyn

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'JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT ARTIST DEC. 1960   AUG. 1988'   Jean-Michel Basquiat's grave is one of the most popular and ...

NYC #36: James Weldon Johnson, Green-Wood Cemetery (6), Brooklyn

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James Weldon Johnson by Carl Van Vechten.   'JOHNSON JAMES WELDON 1871–1938 GRACE NAIL 1885–1976'   So there w...

NYC #35: James Kirke Paulding, Green-Wood Cemetery (5), Brooklyn

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James Kirke Paulding (1778–1860) was a friend of Washington Irving and had links with the Knickerbocker group. A disturbing sentence in P...

NYC #34: Laura Jean Libbey, Green-Wood Cemetery (4), Brooklyn

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'LAURA JEAN LIBBEY DIED OCTOBER 25, 1924'   The grave of Laura Jean Libbey (1842–1924) is very impressive, but the...
19 August 2015

NYC #33: Henry Bergh, Green-Wood Cemetery (3), Brooklyn

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'Humility of Man Before a Group of Agelesss Animals By Wilhelm Hunt Diederich (1884–1953) and John Terken (1912–1993)   This ...

NYC #32: Henry Beecher Stowe, Green-Wood Cemetery (2), Brooklyn

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Henry Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist, lecturer and general social reformer famously accused of adultery, and (equally famously) exoner...

NYC #31: Alice and Phoebe Cary, Green-Wood Cemetery (1), Brooklyn

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The tomb of the poet sisters Alice Cary (1820–71) and Phoebe Cary (1824–1871), most of whose poems were published together and posthumous...