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.

Scope and content Describes his early religious experiences and his Arminian leanings; his days at Dartmouth College; his study of medicine and his involvement in a grave robbery of a cadaver and the subsequent trial; his student days at Union College; his activities as a lawyer, district attorney, newspaper publisher, and politician in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania; his interest in the Corning and Blossburg Railroad, and land speculation. In 1837, Horace Greeley approached Emery with the offer of a literary...