Those photos are simply stunning! Where, again, is this cemetery? I am also one of the odd balls that love cemeteries - have since I was a kid. I still have pictures I took with my first camera - a Brownie - at about age 6 or 7 of St. Mary's in Virginia City. I still wonder who "Charlotte Barnum" was - tombstone I felt compelled to capture?? After reading through your first posts re: this subject I heard on NPR news (must have been 12/28 I think, if you want to find it) a beautiful story of a gentleman who's mission (he may have perhaps published, but I'm not sure, as I caught only the end of the piece) was collating, collecting and preserving obituaries - ones that were written prosaically or uniquely. What touched me about it and helped me explain my own interest in cemeteries, etc. is that he spoke of feeling that he made a connection with the deceased by preserving and reading their obits - and I may have inferred this, but that the spark in that person somehow lived on with his remembrance no matter how 'unimportant' the person may have been in life. I found the post-mortem pictures of children that you linked to so extraordinarily touching - the care with which their little bodies were taken, so sad and so sweet - truly poignant. Thanks for the very fascinating subject thread!
Thank you.
I took them in colour by greyscaled them for effect.

The Cemetery is Mt. View, Cemetery in Oakland, California.
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Mountain View is the resting place of famous figures and ordinary people, the principal players in California's and San Francisco Bay's dramatic settlement.
People like author Frank Norris, artist Thomas Hill, architects Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck, captains of industry such as powerful railroad builder and banker Charles Crocker... all made their contributions to the shaping of a nation's frontier.
As Americans moved westward, man had achieved dominion over the land, overcoming hardships and nature to continue the march to California. But as man triumphed over his environment, he also came to question his place in nature. Mountain View Cemetery is an outgrowth of this contemplation.
My People are buried next door in St. Mary's. The Catholic Cemetery.
You can find more of my Photos of Mt. View here....
http://www.flickr.co...57607544681216/and here....
http://www.flickr.co...57615521436881/
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