Various types of funerary monuments in Magnolia Cemetery in Mobile, Mobile County. Innovations in stonecutting and carving technology and methods sparked a flourishing of decorative statuary in cemeteries beginning in the mid-nineteenth century.
Nineteenth-Century Funerary Monuments
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Photograph by Justin Dubois
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