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Established in 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the first rural cemetery in the country. 19th-century records tell the story of the initial vision and how it is has evolved as a designed landscape and burial site. Including letters between its founding horticulturalists, commissions for works of art and buildings, trustee minutes and reports, and correspondence to and from the Cemetery. These pages detail all aspects of cemetery business, the rural cemetery movement, and the history of American landscape management and design. Read our transcribing conventions here. Visit our collections database to discover even more of our unique holdings.
Works
1870-08-23 Letter: From Mitchell, Lot 1605, to the Trustees, 1831.036.020B
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1870-08-24 Trustee Committee on Green Houses, Folsom to Bradlee, 1831.033.029
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1870-09-13 Receiving Tomb: Letter from Folsom to Bigelow, 2021.011.005
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1870-09-14 Trustee Committee on Birds, Report, 1831.035.001
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1870-09-14 Trustee Committee on Lots, Report on Trull and Blaney Tombs, 1831.036.017.002
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1870-09-30 Letter: A.J. Coolidge to Mackintosh, 2021.021.019
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1870-10-12 Trustee Committee on Grounds, 1831.033.003-028
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1870-12-10 Trustee Committee on Lots, Report on Douglas and Denis Lots, 1831.036.022
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1871-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. January, 1871.
The printed yearly report of the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts from 1871. Jacob Bigelow (President), Charles W. Folsom (Superintendent), Henry B. Mackintosh (Treasurer), Jacob Sleeper (Finance Committee), and Alfred T. Turner (Finance Committee)...
12 pages: 41% complete (33% indexed, 100% corrected, 58% needs review)
1871-01-06 Trustee Committee on Lots, Report for the Year 1870, 1831.036.021
3 pages: 33% complete (0% indexed, 100% transcribed, 67% needs review)
Subject Categories
Avenues and Paths, Landmarks at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Lot Numbers, Organizations and Companies, People, Places