Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Social Sciences
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Barber, Russell
Second Advisor
Long, Thomas
Abstract
This study incorporated a series of photographs taken on cemetery sites, census records, death cards, and epitaphs of the 18th and 19th centuries in the southeast. This data was then deciphered to reveal the possible biographies of the deceased individuals in Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia due to their rich abundance of 18th and 19th century cemeteries, public records, and historical societies. Can gravestone markers truly depict the whole sum of a person's life? Some gravestone markers exhibit an entire range of iconographic images, symbols, and epitaphs allowing the viewer to decipher information about the deceased.
Recommended Citation
Cogan, Deborah Ann, "Biographies in stone: Gravestone iconography, symbolism and epitaphs in the American southwest" (2013). Theses Digitization Project. 4268.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/4268
