Mount Auburn Cemetery

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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.

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1895-01 Sixty-Third Annual Report. Mount Auburn Cemetery. January 1, 1895.

The printed yearly report of the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts from 1895. Israel Munson Spelman (President), James W. Lovering (Superintendent), Henry B. Mackintosh (Treasurer), T. Quincy Browne (Finance Committee), Henry S. Shaw (Finance...

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1896-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1895, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Fourth Year.

The printed yearly report of the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts from 1896. Israel Munson Spelman (President), James C. Scorgie (Superintendent), Henry B. Mackintosh (Treasurer), T. Quincy Browne (Finance Committee), Henry S. Shaw (Finance Committee),...

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1896-03-17 to 1896-12-17 Copying Book: Superintendent Scorgie 2005.062.020

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1896-11-30 Letter from Grew to John Evans, forwarded to Lovering, 1831.018.004-038

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1897-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1896, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Fifth Year.

The printed yearly report of the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts from 1897. Israel Munson Spelman (President), James C. Scorgie (Superintendent), Henry B. Mackintosh (Treasurer), T. Quincy Browne (Finance Committee), Henry S. Shaw (Finance Committee),...

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1898-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1897, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Sixth Year.

The printed yearly report of the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts from 1898. Israel Munson Spelman (President), James C. Scorgie (Superintendent), Henry B. Mackintosh (Treasurer), T. Quincy Browne (Finance Committee), Henry S. Shaw (Finance Committee),...

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1898-07-20 Letter: Superintendent James Scorgie to Cimitiere du Pere la Chaise, 2004.046.001-001

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1898-08-06 Cimitiere Pere la Chaise to Superintendent Scorgie, 2004.046.001-002

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1899-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, for 1898, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. Sixty-Seventh Year.

The printed yearly report of the Trustees of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts from 1899. Israel Munson Spelman (President), James C. Scorgie (Superintendent), Henry B. Mackintosh (Treasurer), T. Quincy Browne (Finance Committee), Henry S. Shaw (Finance Committee),...

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