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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
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),...
18 pages: 50% complete (6% indexed, 100% corrected, 50% needs review)
1904 Cambridge Hospital memo, kept by Treasurer, 2021.021.031
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1904-02-15 Letter: Bullard to Dill, 2021.021.030
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1907 Trustees Meeting Minutes, Volume 8, 1831.005.008
395 pages: 6% complete (1% indexed, 100% transcribed, 93% needs review)
1911-01-04 Letter: March to Dill, 2021.021.027
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1911-01-11 Letter: March to Dill, 2021.021.028
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Adams Statue: Memo with Addresses for Randolph Rogers, Jacob Bigelow, 1831.039.005-011
2 pages: 100% complete (100% indexed, 100% transcribed)
Founding Document: Agreement between Mass Hort Society and D. Haggerston, Gardener 1832, December 20 1832
5 pages: 100% complete (100% indexed, 100% transcribed)
Founding Document: Copy of an Old Report for Laying out Sweet Auburn as a Cemetery, 1831.010.002
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