Description:
Black and white exterior view of a cemetary with two tombstones in the foreground one decorated with a wreath with a third tombstone behind decorated with the American flag and a sign advertising Seal Kote made by The J. E. Harris Company, Wooster, Ohio. Tall trees are visable in the back ground.
Label Text:
A businessman from Worcester, Mass., Daniel Farber (1906-1998) was among the best known photographers of early American gravestone art. Over the course of twenty years beginning in about 1970, he and his wife Jessie Lie Farber (a faculty member at Mount Holyoke College) took thousands of photographs of gravestones throughout New England and the eastern United States, eventually extending their work internationally. Interested in both the artistic and cultural value of gravestones, the Farbers were founding members of the Association for Gravestone Studies in 1976 and influenced a generation of fellow researchers in gravestone studies.
Tags:
advertising; deaths; landscapes; documentation Link to share this object record:
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