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130. Portraits on Stone: Sacred Heart of Mary Cemetery.
The use of images to memorialize a deceased person has taken many forms for over a thousand years. In the 1850s procelain photographs attached to the tombstone first appeared. This form of memorialization appeared in America during the 1870s. The practice continues today in the form of ceramic and laser-etched photographs. This volume (or flip-album) includes photographs of everyone whose image appears on grave markers in the Sacred Heart of Mary Cemetery. Although, the majority of the 23 photographs included in this work are well-preserved the elements (wind, rain, exposure to ultra-violet rays from the sun) and vandalism have taken their toll on some of the images. Unless the image was missing they have been included.
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