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Sepulchral monuments.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Allene Sefton brass rubbings

 Collection
Identifier: 8930
Content Description

Brass rubbings from brass plaques in British cathedrals, including Sir Robert de Bures, Sir Robert de Septvans, Robert the Bruce, Margaret de Camoys, Sir Simon de Wensley, Sir Nicholas Hagworth, William Langton, Lady Margaret Cheney, Isabella Boleyn, Sir Thomas Peyton, Sir Thomas Bullen, Henry Clifford, Sir Edward Warner, Peter Rede, Robert Harte, Dorothy Wadham, Lady Bulcley, Sir William Molyneux, Martinus Aylworth, and a palimsest from Aylesford Parish Church.

Dates: 1302 - 1619

Gravestones and cemetery sculpture collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088370329]
Identifier: 6620
Scope and content

Album of 36 original designs for gravestones and cemetery sculpture in Switzerland, ca. 1923. Designs are executed in pen and ink on white paper and pasted into album. Also included is a folding plan for grave site sculpture, 2 pen and ink drawings of gravesites and 64 black and white photographs, mounted and loose, of the firm's work, some in situ.

Dates: 1923.

Helen Finch Smith papers

 Collection — Box 8: [Barcode: 31924093398638]
Identifier: 3777
Abstract

Manuscript, typed, mimeographed and printed material derived from family and genealogical research; local, county, court, church and cemetery records; and printed local and family history, primarily in southern and central New York State and nearby Pennsylvania counties. Includes research notes and correspondence concerning Cayuga, Schuyler, Tompkins, Madison, Chenango, Tioga and Chemung Counties, New York.

Dates: [ca.1788]-1974.