Phipps Street Burial Ground and John Harvard Monument
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- Title:
- Phipps Street Burial Ground and John Harvard Monument
- Description:
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Phipps Street Burial Ground and John Harvard Monument. Edwin L. Bynner in Topography & Landmarks of the Provincial Period. In the Memorial History of Boston vol. II p. 529 says: "In all the old burying-grounds the singular dispositions of the gravestones in the regular straight lines, or serried rows skirting the edges of the paths, is due to an extraordinary freak of a Superintendent of Burials early in the present (nineteenth) century, who in his intense desire to see things neat and tidy took up the stones from their original position and arranged them to suit his mathematical eye, thus destroying the only trace of the last resting place of some of the greatest and most honored mames in our history." On the other hand we have read somewhere that the extent of the Phipps Street Burial Ground was at the one time curtailed, and many grave stones moved back into the present crowded area.
- Photographer:
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
- Collector:
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
- Name on Item:
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Photo by Wolcott Cutler
- Date:
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September 1941–November 1941
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Photographs
- Genre:
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Lantern slides
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library - Collection (local):
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Charlestown Lantern Slides
- Subjects:
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Cemeteries
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Obelisks
Harvard, John, 1607-1638
- Places:
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MassachusettsSuffolk (county)BostonCharlestown
Phipps Street Burying Ground
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : transparency
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